Chapter 2 Study Guide 40 Points
Magna Carta
1. Historical Context & Why It Was Created:
2. Rights Given (And to who?):
3. Concepts U.S. borrowed:
Petition of Right
4. Historical Context & Why It Was Created:
5. Rights Given (And to who?):
6. Concepts U.S. borrowed:
English Bill of Rights
7. Historical Context & Why It Was Created:
8. Rights Given (And to who?):
9. Concepts U.S. borrowed:
10. Explain the difference between a royal, proprietary, and charter colony.
11. How did Britain treat its American colonies prior to the mid-1700s?
12. What changed that lead to Britain taxing America?
Plans for unity (What were they about? Were they successful?)
13. Albany
14. Stamp Act Congress
15. Explain the details and purpose for the Boston Massacre and Tea Party.
16. What was the purpose of the 1st Continental Congress? What did it produce?
17. What were the functions of the 2nd Continental Congress?
18. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
19. What was the structure of the Articles of Confederation?
20. Why was it structured in that manner?
21. Major strengths of the Articles?
22. Major weaknesses?
23. What problems led to the call to change the Articles?
24. Where and when was the Constitutional Convention?
25. What was the original purpose of the meeting?
26. What state was not represented at the meeting?
27. Explain the structure of the Virginia Plan.
28. What did the New Jersey plan call for to handle representation in Congress?
29. What type of states favored the NJ Plan, and what type favored the VA Plan?
Explain the following compromises reached during the Constitutional Convention.
30. Connecticut:
31. Three Fifths:
32. Commerce & Slave Trade:
33. What were the arguments of the Federalists?
34. What were the arguments of the Antifederalists?
35. How was the debate between the Federalists and the Antifederalists solved?
36. How is the Constitution a “Series of Compromises?”
