Chapter 8 Study Guide 1
Chapter 8 study guide.
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- Virginia House of Burgesses
- Set-up the first representative government group in the American colonies.
- Republic
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- Land ordinance of 1787
- between the United States and Spain guaranteed Spain's exclusive right to navigate the Mississippi River for 30 years. It also opened Spain's European and West Indian seaports to American shipping. However, the Treaty was not ratified under the Articles of ConfederationLand was to be systematically surveyed into square "townships", six miles (9.656 km) on a side. Each of these townships was sub-divided into thirty-six "sections" of one square mile (2.59 km²) or 640 acres. These sections could then be further subdivided for sale to settlers and land speculators
- Suffrage
- The right to vote.
- John Locke
- English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- First plan of US government
- To make laws and consitutions
- Mayflower Compact
- This document was drafted in 1620 prior to settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bay in Massachusetts. It declared that the 41 males who signed it agreed to accept majority rule and participate in a government in the best interest of all members of the colony. This agreement set the precedent for later documents outlining commonwealth rule.
- Powers of congress under the articles of confederation
- A firm league of friendship; Represenitives from each state
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
- this document was the first written constitution in the American colonews. It was prepared as the covenant for the new Puritan community in Connecticut, established in the 1630's. This document described a system of government for the new country
- Magna Carta
- the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
- English Bill of Rights
- King William and Queen Mary accepted this document in 1689. It guaranteed certain rights to English citizens and declared that elections for Parliament would happen frequently. By accepting this document, they supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people.
- Northwest territory
- land that formed wisconsin, minnasota,illinois,indiana,ohio, and michigan