Midterm Study Guide 60 Multiple Choice Questions // 10% of Grade Unit 1 - Historical Thinking Skills and Documents Vocabulary Primary source - Source from a first hand account Secondary source - Comes from a primary source Declaration of Independence - document declaring independence from britain Enlightenment thinkers - People like john locke, montesquieu, etc John Locke - Separation of powers, no cruel and unusual punishment, etc Thomas Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence Natural Rights/Inalienable Rights - Rights guaranteed by god Social Contract - People exchange some of their rights in exchange for protection …show more content…
What is meant by the idea of a social contract? Identify ideas found in the Declaration of Independence that were Enlightenment ideas. Identify grievances that the colonists had against the King. Explain how the Northwest Ordinance provided government for the Northwest Territory. Explain how the Northwest Ordinance established a precedent for governing the United States. Develop an argument that a particular provision of the US Constitution would help in addressing a problem facing the United States in the 1780s (Articles of Confederation). Explain a provision of the US Constitution in terms of how it reflects Enlightenment thinking. Identify ratification concerns of the US Constitution. Identify and compare arguments of Federalists and Antifederalists. Identify which view prevailed in the argument about ratification. Identify the rights delineated in the Bill of Rights. Explain specific precedents for these right - English law, Enlightenment ideas, the experiences of American colonists, early experiences for self-government, and the debate over the ratification of the US Constitution. Unit 2 - Industrialization and Progressivism
2.06 Foundations Review: Assessment 3-2-1 Chart 3 List three things you learned in this unit. The Constitution Federalist and Anti- Federalist The Bill Of Rights 1. 2. 2 List two things in the unit you think are very important. I believe that the Bill of rights was very important as well as The Anti-Federalist.
Answer each of the following questions within a full and complete sentence. Do not provide the information as a list or as bulleted items What are the mailing address and telephone numbers that should be used to contact you in case of an emergency? Include the full address and telephone number in a complete sentence form. A comma is required between the street address and the city.
Name Tutor Course Date Marbury v. Madison 1. Summary of the history of the case and its significance on our structure of government.
A percentage of the opposition accepted that the focal government under the Articles of Confederation was sufficient. Still others accepted that while the national government under the Articles was excessively powerless, the national government under the Constitution would be excessively solid. An alternate grievance of the Anti-Federalists was that the Constitution accommodated a brought together instead of elected type of government and that a really elected manifestation of government was a leaguing of states as under the Articles of Confederation. Yours Response for other student post:
The most important point of the Northwest Ordinance was all the state would be impartially treated and acknowledged as American republic (261). There will be no served as the territory under colonies (261). Overall, the three points of Northwest Ordinance were all important. The three points included the clear procedure to be a state, bill of rights which assured the rights of people and state, and also the abolishment of slavery in the Northwest. However, there was one most important point resulted from this ordinance, which is all the states will acknowledge as part of the American republic and no longer under the colonies
➢ To what extent do you agree with the Anti-Federalists' views? Why? ➢ Do you believe that American history since 1787 has justified the Anti-Federalists' fears? Why or why not?
Thomas Jefferson’s Life Who was the man who wrote the declaration of independence? (Who Was Thomas Jefferson?) Who invented the cipher wheel and improved the plow and the sundial? (WHo Was Thomas Jefferson?) Well that just happens to be Thomas Jefferson.
1. The Constitution’s ratification process included arguments for and against ratification by Federalists and Anti-Federalists, respectively. Describe and evaluate the arguments expressed by both of these groups. The arguments the Federalists used in support of the ratification of the Constitution include a decrease in strength and authority of the federal government under the currently designated Articles of Confederation (Bardes, Shelly, Schimdt, 2015, pp.
The first part of this apply assignment consists of summarizing the Bill of Rights, written by James Madison in 1789, which was ratified in 1791, to the people and the limitations placed on the government. In the Bill of Rights that he wrote the ten Amendments. I will try to simplify and summarize what each one meant. The second part of this assignment I will choose two of the amendments that I feel strongly about and what would happen if they were eliminated and what the nation would be like today. Bill of Rights
Holton addressed were all valid reasons to support his argument that the unruly Americans led to the origins of the Constitution. The strongest argument made by Mr. Holton was the transgressions that the Founding Fathers laid at the feet of the thirteen state legislatures. He stated that the most glaringly representative had shown excessive indulgence to debtors and taxpayers, in which the state legislature had refused to force farmers to pay what they owed (page 92). These policies adopted by the state legislatures in the 1780s proved that ordinary Americans were not entirely capable of ruling themselves (page 96). “Honesty Is the Best Policy” (1786) “Curtis” written by an anonymous author that reads as if it was written by one of the Founding Fathers’.
Following the Revolutionary War, America had just gained independance from Great Britain and needed to form a new government. The Articles of Confederation were established as an attempt to create a government that was unlike Britain’s. Unfortunately, the Articles of Confederation had several weaknesses. When in the process of repairing those weaknesses, the Federalists and the Anti-federalists formed. The Articles of Confederation were very weak as well as useless to America and because of this, the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists could not agree on a new type of government.
Federalism was created because there was a need for a stronger federal government than the Articles of Confederation had, but the founders still had a strong desire to protect the sovereignty of each state. (This one cannot be used for your paper). Do three of these. 1. Term limits are only way to get new faces in congress because they believe little turnover will happen without limiting the year they serve in congress.
The Articles put limitations on the continental congress, such as requesting not forcing states to supply the congress with resources. It also gave more power to the people by making votes unanimous, as in nine states would have to approve of a decision. The articles set a foundation for the new constitution to be set in place. 9. What Was the Newburgh Conspiracy?
This series of 85 essays and articles were written to try to gain support in favor of the Constitution by giving explanations of what the Constitution was and its purpose. Federalist 51, one of the previous stated
During the writing of “The Declaration of Independence”, Thomas Jefferson go to great lengths to describe why the colonies were choosing to separate themselves from Great Britain. This is done not only so readers will have a detailed description of what the American people were facing while being ruled by the King. The vivid depiction of all the cruelty he has shown towards the people. Furthermore, the lengthy, highly descriptive examination of all the wrongs and showing that the colonists made many appeals to the King but also the people of Britain that the reader now feels as if it is wrong for the Colonies to be under Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson begins by detailing the ethical standings of all people that live within the colonies.