Unit 1A Exam Study Guide - Chapters 1 & 2

Define the following terms:

  1. constitution
  2. executive power
  3. unitary government
  4. parliamentary government
  5. presidential government
  6. legislative power
  7. Anti-Federalists
  8. boycott
  9. Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
  10. Connecticut Compromise
  11. English Bill of Rights
  12. Federalists
  13. Magna Carta
  14. unicameral
  15. representative government
  16. Virginia Plan
  17. Petition of Right
  18. charter colonies
  19. Articles of Confederation
  20. proprietary colonies
  21. State representation proposals
  22. features of charter colonies
  23. trade regulation proposals
  24. Anti-Federalist objections to the Constitution

  1. What broad purposes of the United States government are spelled out in the Preamble to the Constitution?
  2. What is a federal government?
  3. List the characteristics of a state:
  4. What is the social contract theory? What are the basic ideas?
  5. Describe the components of the Declaration of Independence:
  6. Describe the government set up by the Articles of Confederation:
  7. Why was the Federalist written?
  8. Describe British rule in the colonies in the mid-1700s:
  9. What were the first State constitutions, adopted after independence, trying to do?
  10. According to the social contract theory, what is the contract?
  11. Who would be MOST threatened by the social contract theory?
  12. What does “Promote the general welfare” really mean?
  13. Where does sovereignty rest in a dictatorship?
  14. What characteristic of a state did the English colonies NOT possess?
  15. Describe the major differences between the royal, proprietary, and charter colonies:
  16. Describe the relationship among the States during the Critical Period:
  17. When crafting the new Constitution, from what examples did the Framers draw?
  18. Why was it ironic that Virginia was one of the last States to ratify the Constitution?
  19. Summarize the objections of the Anti-Federalists to the Constitution:

Unit 1A Exam Study Guide - Chapters 1 & 2

Define the following terms:

  1. constitution
  2. executive power
  3. unitary government
  4. parliamentary government
  5. presidential government
  6. legislative power
  7. Anti-Federalists
  8. boycott
  9. Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
  10. Connecticut Compromise
  11. English Bill of Rights
  12. Federalists
  13. Magna Carta
  14. unicameral
  15. representative government
  16. Virginia Plan
  17. Petition of Right
  18. charter colonies
  19. Articles of Confederation
  20. proprietary colonies
  21. State representation proposals
  22. features of charter colonies
  23. trade regulation proposals
  24. Anti-Federalist objections to the Constitution

  1. What broad purposes of the United States government are spelled out in the Preamble to the Constitution?
  2. What is a federal government?
  3. List the characteristics of a state:
  4. What is the social contract theory? What are the basic ideas?
  5. Describe the components of the Declaration of Independence:
  6. Describe the government set up by the Articles of Confederation:
  7. Why was the Federalist written?
  8. Describe British rule in the colonies in the mid-1700s:
  9. What were the first State constitutions, adopted after independence, trying to do?
  10. According to the social contract theory, what is the contract?
  11. Who would be MOST threatened by the social contract theory?
  12. What does “Promote the general welfare” really mean?
  13. Where does sovereignty rest in a dictatorship?
  14. What characteristic of a state did the English colonies NOT possess?
  15. Describe the major differences between the royal, proprietary, and charter colonies:
  16. Describe the relationship among the States during the Critical Period:
  17. When crafting the new Constitution, from what examples did the Framers draw?
  18. Why was it ironic that Virginia was one of the last States to ratify the Constitution?
  19. Summarize the objections of the Anti-Federalists to the Constitution: