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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. The Magna Carta | (1215) made the king subject to law |
| 2. Influence of the Magna Carta on the Constitution | influenced everyone subject to law and limited king's power |
| 3. Thomas Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom | stated that people were not forced to go to a certain church/ be required to pay for church with tax money |
| 4. Northwest Ordinance of 1787: slavery | banned slavery in the territory |
| 5. Northwest ordinance of 1787: adding new states | established Northwest teritory (now Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin) brought new states into the union |
| 6. Purpose of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest ordinance of 1785 | It set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands |
| 7. How land was divided under the Land Ordinance of 1785. | Each township was divided into 36 miles |
| 8. Major Influences on the U.S. Constitution | The Mayflower Compact, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights and the Enlightenment |
| 9. How the Articles of Confederation reflect the ideas in the Declaration of Independence | It gave independence to each state and provided individual rights for everyone |
| 10. Significance of the Articles of Confederation | outlined the first united states government |
| 11. Main cause of Shay's Rebellion | Farmers had to pay new taxes and some had to begin to sell there property |
| 12. U.S. government's response to Shay's Rebellion | there was little help from the U.S. congress |
| 13. American citizens' response to Shay's Rebellion | they revised the Articles of Confederation to meet the needs of the nation |
| 14. Significance of Shay's Rebellion | farmers shared with the government that they were not happy with taxing and the heavy debts. shared that the articles of Confederation were unfairly punishing them to do things that they did not want to do |
| 15. Main features of the Articles of Confederation | it described the former colonies, a collection of soverign states, with a less powerful federal government. Each state had equal representation in government. |
| 16. Problems With Britain after the Revolution | Britain closed many ports, and trade with the West Indies stopped |
| 17. Problems With Spain after the Revolution | they closed the Mississippi River, and Spain broke off negotiations |
| 18. Purpose of the Constitutional Convention | a meeting between American States, that devised (created) a more effective government, than the one that existed under the Articles of confederantion. |
| 19. Virginia Plan | (large state Plan) Brought by Edmund Randolph, proposed three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. Representation was based on populatioin (james Madison also helped ) |
| 20. New Jersey Plan | (small state plan)brought by William Patterson, proprosed each state would recieve one vote in the legislature, regardless of population |
| 21. Great Compromise | (Connecticut Compromise) presented by Roger Sherman, each state had same number of senators,representation in the House of Representation was based on population |
| 22. North vs South disagreement over slavery at the Constitutional Convention | North believed the slves should be counted as property, and South believed slaves should be counted as population, agreed on abolishing slavery in 20 yrs. |
| 23. Three-Fifths Compromise | said slaves would be counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a state's population for representation |
| 24. Popular Sovereignty | the idea that political authority belongs to the people |
| 25. Federalism | the sharing of power between central governments andd states |
| 26. Purpose of checks and balances in the government | three branches shared power throught the system |
| 27. How the Constitution reflected the ideas of the Declaration of Independence | it protected people's rights, but did not have a strong government |
| 28. Power of the national government ("delegated" powers) | they could... 1. declare war 2. negotiate treaties(foreign polocies) 3. issue money 4. Regulate trade(interstate & Forreign) 5. Run the Military |
| 29. Power of the state governments ("reserved" powers) | they could... 1. Regulate education 2. grant licenses 3. Provide police and fire department 4. Regulate sale of property in the state |
| 30. shared powers between national and state governments ("concurrent" powers) | they could.. 1. Levy taxes 2. define crimes and punishments 3. determine voting qualifications 4. borrow money |
| 31. Federalists and their arguments for the Constitution | they could: draft army,tax,get laws passed, system of checks and balance, stable strong government |
| 32. Anti federalists and their arguments against the Constitution | too much power, no individual rights, too much power to tax, bill of Rights needed |
| 33. The Federalists Papers | federalists wrote this defending the constitution |
| 34.The Bill of Rights | It's a set of basic priciples, it protects citizens rights. |
| 35. Reasons the U.S. constitution is still used more than 200 years later | The U.S. constitution describes how the U.S. Government works, including the three branches of government and provides for the protection of individual liberties, as outlined in the Bill of Rights and other amendments |
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