Chapter 4 - Study Guide

Front 1

List the 13 colonies according to their geographical locations.

Back 1

Northern: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Middle: New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Southern: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, George, Maryland

Front 2

Explain the background of the 13 colonies.

Back 2

-60% English

-Either royal or proprietary

-Governors of the royal colonies were appointed by the king and the Penns owned Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Front 3

Intolerable Acts

Back 3

Closed the port of Boston, which was a drastic economic penalty for a city that depended so heavily on trading.

Front 4

East India Company (1773)

Back 4

The British parliament gave exclusive rights to this company to sell tea to American dealers. (Boston Tea Party)

Front 5

Taxation Without Representation

Back 5

Taxed on goods and other products, but did not have an American in the British parliament.

Front 6

Townsend Act

Back 6

Taxes colonial imports of paint, tea, lead, and paper.

Front 7

Stamp Act

Back 7

Required Americans to play for their own protection and defense out of the revenues from the sale of stamped paper to be used so 50 items such as pamphlets, newspapers, playing cards, and college diplomas.

Front 8

Quartering Act

Back 8

Required the Americans to house and feed the British army when the troops entered the colonial areas.

Front 9

Declaratory Act

Back 9

Stated that the British government could so anything that was necessary to keep the American colonies in line.

Front 10

Sugar Act

Back 10

Taxed sugar, wine, coffee, and other products commonly exported to the colonies.

Front 11

what was the Revolutionary Philosophy?

Back 11

When a government neglects its responsibilities to a people and oppresses that people, they have the right to overthrow that government.

Front 12

What were Yecat's views concerning the U.S. Constitution?

Back 12

According to Professor Yecats, the 27 amendments could be broken into four major categories.

Front 13

Articles of Confederation

Back 13

American's first constitutional government. An unicameral system, where by each state had one vote.

Front 14

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Back 14

Established a basic pattern of government for new territories north of Ohio River.

Front 15

Virginia Plan

Back 15

A bi-cameral (or two-house) legislature with the lower house being elected by direct popular vote, and the upper house being elected by the lower house.

Front 16

New Jersey Plan

Back 16

A unicameral (or one-house) legislature with equal state representation, regardless of population.

Front 17

Connecticut Compromise

Back 17

(Great Compromise)

Two-house legislature in which house members would be elected by popular vote based on population, and the upper house would be chosen by state legislatures.

Front 18

What are the four purposes of the Constitution?

Back 18

1. Provide structure for the governmental system, its organs, and its institutions of public authority.