Good Review site:
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/government/index.htm
30 Short Answer: 10 Vocab, 20 M/C
1 Essay
People, Terms and Concepts
• Articles of Confederation
• Mercantalism
• Declaration of Independence
• Great Compromise
• Enlightenment
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Common Sense
• John Locke
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Peter Zenger Trial
Multiple Choice:
• What was important aboutr the Mayflower Compact, Va. House of Burgesses; What are they examples of?
• What were the differences between the Va. Plan and the NJ Plan?
• What was John Locke’s theory of natural rights?
• Who had a big influence on Thomas Jefferson, and what he wrote in the DOI?
• What are the basic ideas stated in the DOI?
• How are the DOI and Bill of Rights similar?
• What’s the fundamental purpose of gov’t?
• What did the Great Compromise do? What issues did it settle?
• How did the AOC work?
• Why was the AOC unsuccessful?
• Why was Common Sense Important?
• Why was the John Peter Zenger trial important?
• How did Mercantalism work?
Thematic Essay: Constitutional Issues
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 adopted several compromises to resolve disagreements over major issues facing the new nation.
Task:
Identify two issues from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 (what were two disagreements that occurred?).
For each issue identified
• Describe the disagreement that arose over the issue at the C.C. (tell us about the disagreement; don’t just say what it was! Who was it between? What was it over?)
• Explain how the issue was resolved through the use of Compromise (Give the details behind the compromises; how did they work? What did each side get?
You may use any Cold War problems from your study of United States history. Some
suggestions you might wish to consider include, but are not limited to:
• Representation in Congress
• Slavery
• Taxation
Resources:
Chapter 4 (p 20-34) of the BLUE Review Books (the big handout from class),
Textbook Chapter 4
Regentsprep.org – follow the links for Government.
Fdmurphy.com – follow the links for essay writing
Socialstudieshelp.com
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Natalie Slavova
Homework
Re view pages 132-144
Main ideas pg 150 1 - 7
1 A lot of the people didn’t want a democracy for their government because they didn’t want the people to have all the power many were scared that if the power was give fully to the people the nation would go down.
2 The states feared a strong central government because they didn’t want to be bossed around by some one else they wanted to make all the decisions on there own and with a strong central government that wouldn’t be possibly.
3 The confederation was weak in a way because it gave power to the government but they had no sauce of power so all the laws and everything they were allowed to do they couldn’t because they had no one to support them they didn’t think it out before they came up with confederations.
4 Their were many causes of the constitutional convention one was that the north states wanted to convince the national government to make the southern states to pay taxes on exported goods.
5 Compromising played a big role in writing the constitution because every one was happy because they got their opinions heard.
6 The slave trade was a issue at the constitutional convention because many said that slaves were no good that they would rune thing nation and others said that if slaves weren’t around how would the south work and make money slaves were big part of that. .
7 All the states established a strong government where every one was safe and was treated equal they had three branches and they all had something they need to take care of there were cheeks and balances so no one over abused their power.
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