1. Trashketball Review

2. 1.1 Enlightenment

3. Question
Besides limiting the power of the British monarch and giving more power to the nobles, what else did the Magna Carta do?

4. Guaranteed Due Process and Trial by Jury
Answer
Guaranteed Due Process and Trial by Jury

5. Question
What Enlightenment philosopher developed the concept of separation of powers?

6. Answer
Baron de Montesquieu

7. Question
What principle of American government is being illustrated in this quote? “Government has no other end, but the preservation of property”

8. Answer
Natural Rights

9. Explain the concept of common law
Question
Explain the concept of common law

10. Answer
a system of law based on previous court decisions (precedent) rather than regulations and law

11. Question
In what way is the English Bill of Rights Similar to the American Bill of Rights?

12. Answer

13. Question
What principle of American government is being illustrated in this quote? “Freedom is the power to choose our own chains”

14. Answer
Popular Sovereignty

15. Question
What principle of American government is being illustrated in this quote? To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the distribution of powers which that the Constitution has established are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

16. Answer
Separation of Powers

17. 1.2 Tensions in the Colonies

18. How did Great Britain use the economic theory of Mercantilism?
Question
How did Great Britain use the economic theory of Mercantilism?

19. Answer
Britain's power came from its wealth. To accumulate more wealth they used the colonies as a source of raw materials AND a market to sell finished goods to. They exported far more goods than they imported.

20. What was the significance of the Navigation Acts?
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What was the significance of the Navigation Acts?

21. Answer
To ensure that mercantilism would continue to work. GB made it illegal for the colonies to buy anything other than British made goods.

22. Question
What was the most significant effect that the French and Indian war had on the relationship between the colonies and GB?

23. Answer
Huge amounts of war debt led GB to tax the colonies which in turn created more colonial resentment towards the crown.

24. Question
This piece of legislation was a cause of the Boston Tea Party. It taxed many different goods and allowed British officials to search for smuggled goods

25. Answer
Townshend Acts

26. What were the intolerable acts?
Question
What were the intolerable acts?

27. Answer
Punishment specifically for the city of Boston (after BTP) that restricted colonists’ rights including trail by jury

28. Question
How did Thomas Paine Influence public opinion regarding the colonies breaking away from GB?

29. Answer
He wrote Common Sense which made the case for American Independence. He also reached a massive audience with his casual writing style.

30. What were the 3 purposes of the Declaration of Independence?
Question
What were the 3 purposes of the Declaration of Independence?

31. Answer
1. Argue cause to Parliament 2. Garner support for the cause (troop morale) 3. Inform other countries

32. 1.3 Constitutional Convention

33. Explain two ways the Articles of Confederation were considered weak
Question
Explain two ways the Articles of Confederation were considered weak

34. Answer
-System of Congress -Lack of Central Power -Each state was acting autonomously

35. Why did Shays’ Rebellion occur?
Question
Why did Shays’ Rebellion occur?

36. Answer
Both federal and state government were in serious debt after the F&I War. To pay back this debt states began taxing their citizens and exports heavily. Daniel Shay, a farmer, rebelled with 1200 others in protest of this.

37. What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
Question
What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

38. To amend the Articles of Confederation or to write a new Constitution
Answer
To amend the Articles of Confederation or to write a new Constitution

39. How were the VA Plan and the NJ plan different?
Question
How were the VA Plan and the NJ plan different?

40. Answer
-VA Plan – 3 Branches of Gov’t, 2 chambered Congress & Representation in congress would be by population -NJ Plan – Similar to the Articles, I chambered congress & Representation in congress would be by state (=)

41. Question
Explain how the Great Compromise used elements from both the VA plan and NJ Plan

42. Answer
-From VA – two chambered Congress, Senate and House of Reps (based on population) -From NJ – In the Senate every state would receive the same number of votes

43. Question
How did Northern and Southern states respectively feel about counting slaves as a part of the population? What was their Compromise?

44. Answer
South- Wanted slaves to count North – Did not want slaves to count 3/5 Compromise held that each slave would count 3/5 of a person

45. Question
How did Northern and Southern state compromise on the issues of commerce and the slave trade?

46. Answer
Trade would be controlled by Congress Congress would not tax exports Slave trade would end in 1808

47. 1.4 Ratifying the constitution

48. Federalist or Anti-Federalist? Alexander Hamilton
Question
Federalist or Anti-Federalist? Alexander Hamilton

49. Answer
Federalist

50. Federalist or Anti-Federalist? Wanted a Bill of Rights
Question
Federalist or Anti-Federalist? Wanted a Bill of Rights

51. Answer
Anti-Federalist

52. Federalist or Anti-Federalist? Wanted strong state governments
Question
Federalist or Anti-Federalist? Wanted strong state governments

53. Answer
Anti-Federalists

54. Why were the Federalist papers written?
Question
Why were the Federalist papers written?

55. Answer
Explain the ideas in the Constitution and make people want to ratify it.

56. 1.5 Principles of Government

57. Question
The Preamble of the Constitution begins with the quote “We the People”. What principle of government is this representing?

58. Answer
Popular Sovereignty

59. What is the purpose of the principle of separation of powers?
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What is the purpose of the principle of separation of powers?

60. Answer
So one branch of government does not have more power than any of the others

61. Explain the concept of Federalism
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Explain the concept of Federalism

62. Answer
Where state and federal governments exist simultaneously and share power