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Section 1 Guided Reading and Review
Our Political Beginnings
CHAPTER
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A. As You Read
As you read the section, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Basic Concepts of Government
1. What is ordered government?
2. What is limited government?
3. What is representative government?
Landmark English Documents
4. How did the Magna Carta affect English government?
5. How did the Petition of Right affect English government?
6. How did the English Bill of Rights affect English government?
Government in the Colonies
7. How were royal colonies governed?
8. How were proprietary colonies governed?
9. How were charter colonies governed?
B. Reviewing Key Terms
Match the descriptions in Column I with the terms in Column II.
Write the correct letter in each blank.
Column I
Column II
_____ 10. written grant of authority from the king to
establish a colony
a. limited government
b. representative government
_____ 11. government that is not all-powerful
c. Magna Carta
_____ 12. consisting of two houses, as in a legislature
d. charter
_____ 13. government that serves the will of the people
e. bicameral
_____ 14. document written in 1215 limiting the power
of the English monarchy
f.
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Section 2 Guided Reading and Review
The Coming of Independence
CHAPTER
2
A. As You Read
The dates on the chart below indicate important developments and events related to American
independence. As you read Section 2, fill in the chart by writing a brief description of the significance of each date listed.
Year/Date
Description of Event
1. 1643
2. 1696
3. 1754
4. 1765
5. 1770, March 5
6. 1772
7. 1773, December 16
8. 1774, Spring
9. 1774, September 5
10. 1775, April 19
11. 1775, May 10
12. 1776, June 7
13. 1776, July 2
14. 1776, July 4
15. 1781, March 1
B. Reviewing Key Terms
Define the following key terms.
16. delegates__________________________________________________________________________
17. confederation _____________________________________________________________________
18. repeal ____________________________________________________________________________
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Section 3 Guided Reading and Review
The Critical Period
CHAPTER
2
A. As You Read
As you read Section 3, answer the questions below on a separate piece of paper or in the space
provided.
The Articles of Confederation
1. Describe the structure of the government set up by the Articles of Confederation.
Fill in the chart below with the 10 powers granted to Congress under the Articles.
Congressional Powers Under the Articles of Confederation
2.____________________________________
7.____________________________________
3.____________________________________
8.____________________________________
4.____________________________________
9.____________________________________
5.____________________________________
10. __________________________________
6.____________________________________
11. __________________________________
12. What obligations did States have to one another?
13. What obligations did States have to citizens?
14. What powers did Congress not have?
The Critical Period, the 1780s
15. What government action took place in response to Shays’ Rebellion?
A Need for Stronger Government
16. What was the goal of the Constitutional Convention?
B. Reviewing Key Terms
Define the following key terms.
17. ratification ________________________________________________________________________
18. presiding officer ___________________________________________________________________
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Section 4 Guided Reading and Review
CHAPTER
Creating the Constitution
2
A. As You Read
The chart below outlines the initial plans for a constitution and the “bundle of compromises” that
resulted from the various plans. As you read Section 4, complete the chart by filling in the boxes
provided.
Plan
or Compromise
Type of States
That Benefited
Provisions
1.
2.
3.
4.
Connecticut
Compromise
5.
6.
Three-Fifths
Compromise
7.
8.
Commerce and
Slave Trade
Compromise
9.
10.
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
11. Name a group whose interests seem to have been ignored, or even harmed, by the
compromises that created the Constitution. ____________________________________
B. Reviewing Key Terms
On a separate sheet of paper, use the key term below in a sentence
that shows the meaning of the term.
12. Framers
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Section 5 Guided Reading and Review
Ratifying the Constitution
CHAPTER
2
A. As You Read
As you read the section, fill in the following outline by writing supporting details in the form of
answers to questions 1–5.
The Fight for Ratification
1. What were the positions of each side toward ratification?
a. Federalists: __________________________________________
b. Anti-Federalists: ______________________________________
2. What were the five issues involved in the ratification debate?
a. ______________________________________
b. ______________________________________
c. ______________________________________
d. ______________________________________
e. ______________________________________
3. On what two States did the success or failure of ratification depend?
____________________________ and ________________________
Inaugurating the Government
4. Where was the first national capital located? ____________________________
5. Who became the new nation’s first President and Vice President?
a. President: _________________________________________
b. Vice President: ______________________________________
B. Reviewing Key Terms
Identify the following people as either a Federalist or an Anti-Federalist. On the spaces provided,
write an A for Anti-Federalist or an F for Federalist.
6. James Madison
_____
7. Patrick Henry
_____
8. Alexander Hamilton _____
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Skills for
Making Comparisons
LIFE
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In 1789, the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, which had been adopted in 1777.
Although the goal of both of these documents was to set up a government for the United States,
there were many differences among them. One key difference was in the nature of the legislature.
Use the excerpts below to make comparisons between the legislative branch of the National Government under each. Read the excerpts and then, on a separate sheet of paper, answer the questions
that follow. You may want to prepare your comparison as a chart.
Articles of Confederation
U.S. Constitution
V …delegates shall be annually appointed in
such manner as the legislatures of each State
shall direct…with a power reserved to each
State to recall its delegates, or any of them, at
any time within the year, and to send others in
their stead for the remainder of the year.
No State shall be represented in Congress by
less than two, nor more than seven members…
In determining questions in the United States
in Congress assembled, each State shall have
one vote.…
Article I Section 1. All legislative powers
herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of
the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2. The House of Representatives
shall be composed of members chosen every
second year by the people of the several
states….
Representatives and direct taxes shall be
apportioned among the several states which
may be included within this union, according
to their respective numbers….
Section 3. The Senate of the United States
shall be composed of two Senators from each
state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six
years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
1. What is the basis of comparison for these two documents?
2. How is Congress different under these documents?
3. How is Congress the same under these documents?
4. Are the excerpts of these documents mostly the same or mostly different? Why?
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