Chapter 2 Text work
American Government
1.
What are the 3 types of colonies under British rule?
2.
What are the 3 things or ideas taken from the Magna Carta that we see used in today’s government philosophy?
3.
Define Petition of Rights
4.
From the three types of colonies set up in the “new America”, what type of colony best matches our structure of government?
5.
What were the 3 basic ideas brought over to North America by the English colonists that shaped the government in the U.S.? (Do not have to define just list the three)
6.
Define Ordered Government.
7.
What was the Albany Plan? Who led it and what colonies were present?
8.
What was the Albany Plan of the Union?
9.
Define Limited Government.
10.
Define Representative Government.
11.
What is a bicameral system?
12.
What is the Virginia plan?
13.
What is the New Jersey plan?
14.
Explain the Connecticut compromise?
15.
Explain the 3/5 compromise?
16.
What was the first constitution of the United States?
17.
What were 4 commonalities of the new state constitutions?
18.
Which state had the first state constitution?
19.
What is the oldest state constitution still is effect?
20.
What were the problems of the first U.S. constitution?