Study Guide for the Chap 3 TEST

 

Chap 3:

·   Questions from Chap 3 Crack the Code!

·   Questions made up from these 8 questions:

o       1. What was Britain's policy of "benign neglect" toward the colonies?

o       2. Why did Britain change this policy?

o       3. What did they do to change it?  What tax did they now charge the colonies?

o       4. What was the colonists response?

o       5. Name at least one of the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

o       6. What was the Virginia Plan?

o       7. What was the New Jersey Plan?

o       8. Which Plan favored small states and which favored big states?  What was the compromise that was reached at the Constitutional Convention between these two plans?

·   Questions based on the 3.2 lab quiz –

§         Religious and Classical Roots of American Democracy

§         Philosophers

§         Great Documents (Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Petition of Right)

·   Questions from

o       Chap 3 Vocabulary

o       Concepts from the pp42-43 timeline – Match the concept from where it came

o       Basic make up of colonial legislatures

o       The Compromises of the Constitutional Convention

§         Representation (VA plan and NJ plan...)

§         Slavery (3/5)

§         The Executive Branch

  • Be sure to study Chapter 3.  Here are the notes...