FOUNDATIONS OF GOVERNMENT
What type of government is one in which citizens elect people to make decisions for them?
Representative governemnt
What document did King John sign in 1215 that recognized important rights and limited the king's power?
Magna Carta
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What meeting was held in Philadelphia to create a stronger national government?
Constitutional Convention
What group supported ratification of the new Constitution?
Federalists
What type of government recognizes that government officials must follow laws and cannot have unlimited power?
limited governemnt
Who was the proprietor who founded Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What was the first national government of the United States?
Articles of Confederation
Which two plans disagreed over how states should be represented in Congress?
Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan
Before Washington, D.C., what city served as the first capital under the new Constitution?
New York City
What type of government provides stability and order so society can function peacefully?
ordered governemnt
Which Founding Father and inventor proposed joining the colonies together in a confederacy before independence?
Benjamin Franklin
What important power did Congress lack under the Articles of Confederation, making it difficult to pay the nation's debts?
power to tax
: What was the main disagreement between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
how states would be represented in Congress
What principle says that government officials must obey the law just like everyone else?
rule of law
What principle means that government gets its power from the people?
popular sovereignty (pop. government)
Why did England keep an army in the American colonies after the French and Indian War?
to protect the colonies from Native American attacks and other threats
Which rebellion showed that the national government under the Articles was too weak to effectively respond to problems within a state?
Shays' Rebellion
What do we call a legislature that has two houses?
bicameral
What principle says that the people are the ultimate source of government power?
popular sovereignty
Name the three major ideas about government that colonists brought with them from England.
representative government, limited government, and popular government?
Which city became a major center of revolutionary activity?
Boston
Why were the Articles of Confederation considered too weak to be an effective national government?
Congress had very limited powers, including no power to tax or effectively enforce laws
What compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation?
Three-Fifths Compromise
The Virginia Plan favored representation based on population, while the New Jersey Plan favored what type of representation?
What is equal representation for each state?