Government (Leite)
Chapter 2: Origins of American Government
Section 1: Our Political Beginnings
English and Colonial Political Ideas
Reading Guide
Section 1: Our Political Beginnings
As you read, answer the following questions.
1)
What is ordered government?
2)
What is limited government?
3)
What is representative government?
4)
How did the Magna Carta affect English government?
5)
How did the Petition of Right affect English government?
6)
How did the English Bill of Rights affect English government?
7)
How were royal colonies governed?
8)
How were proprietary colonies governed?
9)
How were charter colonies governed?
10) Define CHARTER:
11) Define BICAMERAL:
12) Define UNICAMERAL:
Section 2: The Coming of Independence
Timeline
In the space provided, write a description of the event that happened on the date given
1643
1696
1754
1765
1770, March 5
1772
1773, Dec 16
1774, Spring
1774, Sept 5
1775, April 19
1775, May 10
1776, June 7
1776, July 2
1776, July 4
1781, March 1
Define DELEGATES:
Define CONFEDERATION:
Define REPEAL:
Section 3: The Critical Period
Articles of Confederation
Strengths
• Make ___war__, and
__treaties__________
___
• Send and receive
____ambassadors___
___________
Weaknesses
• ___One_____ vote per
State, regardless of
_________
• Establish _post
offices___
• Congress
____powerless_______
____ to lay and collect
___taxes______ or
duties, or to regulate
_trade and
__business__________
commerce
• Build a __navy___
and raise an
__army___
• No __power__ to
enforce the acts of
Congress
• Fix uniform
____standards or
weights and measures
• No national
____court_____ system
• Borrow
___money______ and
set up a money system
• Settle
_____disputes_____
among the States
• Amendment only with
consent of _all_ States
Consequences
•
•
•
Section 3: The Critical Period
The Articles of Confederation
1.
Describe the structure of the government set up by the Articles of Confederation.
Congressional Powers Under the Articles of Confederation
2.
__________________________
7.
__________________________
3.
__________________________
8.
__________________________
4.
__________________________
9.
__________________________
5.
__________________________
10. __________________________
6.
__________________________
11. __________________________
12.
What obligations did States have to one another?
13.
What obligations did States have to citizens?
14.
What powers did Congress NOT have?
The Critical Period, the 1780s
15.
What government action took place in response to Shay’s Rebellion?
A Need for Stronger Government
16.
What was the goal of the Constitutional Convention?
Key Terms
17.
Define RATIFICATION:
18.
Define PRESIDING OFFICER:
Section 4: Creating the Constitution
The chart below outlines the initial plans for a constitution and the “bundle of compromises” that resulted
from various plans. As you read Section 4, complete the chart by filling in the boxes provided.
Plan or
Compromise
Provisions
Types of States That Benefited
Virginia Plan
New Jersey
Plan
Connecticut
Compromise
Three-Fifths
Compromise
Commerce
and Slave
Trade
Compromise
Name a group whose interests seem to have been ignored, or even harmed, by the compromises that
created the Constitution. _______________________
Write a sentence using the term FRAMERS.
Reading Guide
Section 5: Ratifying the Constitution
As you read, answer the following questions.
The Fight for Ratification
What were the positions of each side toward ratification?
Federalists: ____________________________
Anti-Federalists: ____________________________
What were the five issues involved in the ratification debate?
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
On what two States did the success or failure of ratification depend?
_____________________________ and _______________________________
Inaugurating the Government
Where was the first national capital located? ____________________________
Who became the new nation’s first…
President: _________________________________________
Vice President: _________________________________________
Key Terms
Identify the following people as either a Federalist or an Anti-Federalist. On the spaces provided, write an A
for Anti-Federalist or an F for Federalist.
James Madison
________
Patrick Henry
________
Alexander Hamilton
________
Section 4: Creating the Constitution
Section 5: Comparing Federalists and Anti-Federalists