Vocab Terms
When a country's population or representatives approve a document or law
What is Ratification?
The document that officially started 'Murica
The Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, and the Petition of Right were significant because
What is they limited the power of the king?
This plan wanted representation to be based on population, or popular representation:
What is the Virginia Plan?
Limited government is
What is when a government is limited in what it can do?
A person who represents others at a convention or congress
What is a delegate?
John Adams supported this government concept by defending the British Soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre
What is due process?
This plan wanted equal representation:
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Separation of Powers
The two things a bill of rights accomplishes
What are limiting the power of the government and protecting the rights of the people?
James Madison’s contribution to government
What is he wrote the Constitution?
This faction supported a Bill of Rights being added to the Constitution
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
The Americans' last stitch effort at peace with Great Britain
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
Laws that are unwritten and widely accepted amongst societies
What is Common Law?
The Three Types of American Colonies
What are Royal, Charter, and Proprietary colonies?
The Connecticut Compromise
What was the compromise that blended the Virginia and New Jersey Plans into a new system that created a bicameral legislature with both popular and equal representation.
Consent of the Governed
What concept of government contains the idea that the people can end their government if it is taking away their rights?
The first state constitutions were similar to one another in this way
What is they shared key ideas about government such as Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, and Separation of Powers?
Shays' Rebellion
What is an uprising in the 1780's started by Daniel Shays as a response to high taxes on farmers?
The two compromises that involved Slavery
What are the 3/5 Compromise and Slavery/Commerce compromise?