Gov Chapter 2

The Petition of Right resulted from a conflict between which two groups?

Charles I and Parliament

The Stamp Act marked Parliament’s first attempt to

tax the colonists directly

What ideal did the Antifederalists find the Constitution lacked?

individual rights

Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

Congress lacked the power to tax

What important event occurred three weeks before the Second Continental Congress met?

“the shot heard ‘round the world”

For which reason is James Madison hailed as the Father of the Constitution?

He greatly influenced the outcome of the convention

The New Jersey Plan was designed to stay closer to which document?

Articles of Confederation

Parliament imposed a series of taxes on the colonies beginning in 1764 in order to

help pay Britain’s debts resulting from the French and Indian War

How did the Northwest Ordinance differ from the Constitution on the issue of slavery?

The Northwest Ordinance banned slavery in the territory, while the Constitution temporarily protected the slave trade.

Why did the colonists resent the taxes imposed by Parliament beginning in 1764?

The colonists had no representation in Parliament

Thomas Jefferson argued in the Declaration of Independence that, if a government disregards the will of the people, the people are free to do which of the following?

change their government

Which of the following was a set of laws that limited the power of government and gave all free men the right to choose judges?

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Antifederalists believed that representative government

could only exist in a small territory

Study the selection and answer the question that follows. “My political curiosity . . . leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of ‘We, the People,’ instead of ‘We, the States?’”

Constitution

According to the Three-Fifths Compromise, three-fifths of a state’s slave population would be

counted when determining representation in Congress.

For ideas on how to use the law to protect people’s natural rights to life, liberty, and property, the Framers looked to

William Blackstone

One of the purposes of the New England Confederation was to

defend against threats posed by Native Americans

The Framers took the idea of separation of powers from which philosopher?

Montesquieu

Which document was passed by Parliament in the Glorious Revolution?

English Bill of Rights

Why did Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison write the Federalist Papers?

They wrote the articles in defense of the new Constitution.

Under the Articles of Confederation, most governmental power was retained by which?

states

Civic virtue is the idea that people should do which of the following?

place the common good over private interests

Republican ideas can be traced back to which of the following?

ancient Greece and Rome

Which of the following was the Confederation Congress’s greatest success?

passage of the Northwest Ordinance

The Framers relied on the writings of which Enlightenment philosopher as they decided how best to protect economic freedom and rights to property?

Adam Smith

What did the Constitution do about the Atlantic slave trade?

It barred Congress from banning the slave trade for 20 years.

What event showed how feeble the Confederation Congress was and hastened moves to revise the Articles of Confederation?

Shays’s Rebellion

According to the Constitution, a state’s electors would be equal to what?

number of its representatives in both houses of Congress

How did the Framers bypass Congress and state legislatures in the process of ratifying the new Constitution?

They called for voters in each state to elect representatives to a state ratifying convention.

Magna Carta was originally intended to protect the rights of which group?

nobles

For the Confederation Congress to pass any major legislation, how many states had to agree?

nine

Which type of colony enjoyed the most independence from the Crown?

charter

Which of the following was the most pressing challenge facing the Confederation Congress?

paying off the war debt

Why did large states favor the Virginia Plan?

Representation in the legislature would be based on population

The first ten amendments to the constitution are traditionally called the

Bill of Rights

In which state was the Federalist cause strongest?

New Jersey

Delegates gathered in Philadelphia in May of 1787 to do what?

revise the Articles of Confederation

Why did the colonial assemblies reject the Albany Plan of Union?

They feared that the plan gave too much power to the Crown

Which colony did not send delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia?

Georgia

Why was the Great Compromise acceptable to the smaller states?

States would be represented equally in the Senate