1. What is the US National Anthem?
QOD 10/3/13
What is the US National Anthem?
What is the Saudi Arabia National Anthem?
What is the UK National Anthem?
What is the Chinese National Anthem?
(just for giggles…which song above sounds remarkably like “America the Beautiful?”)

2. Unit I
Vocabulary
GET READY!!!

3. Government
The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies

4. State
A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically (with government), and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority

5. Confederation
An alliance of independent states

6. Limited Government
Gov’t that is restricted in what it may do and each individual has certain rights that gov’t cannot take away

7. Representative Government
Gov’t should serve the will of the people; people should have a voice in the gov’t

8. Magna Carta the great charter
King john (England) Forced to sign by barons
Included fundamental rights: trial by jury, due process of law, protection against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, and property

9. Petition of Rights Charles I (England) Limited the king’s power
King no longer imprison or punish any person by lawful judgment of his peers
Challenged divine right of kings

10. English Bill of Rights William & Mary Glorious revolution
Prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of parliament, and free elections

11. Charter (Charter Colonies)
A written grant of authority from a king
Largely self – governing; CT and RI were the only 2 colonies

12. Proprietary (Proprietor Colonies)
Organized by a proprietor, a person to whom the king had made a grant of land
Maryland – lord Baltimore
Pennsylvania – William Penn
Delaware – William Penn

13. Delegate
Members of Congress who cast their votes based on the wishes of their constituents; Representatives

14. Albany Plan of Union
B. Franklin proposed the formation of an annual congress of delegates from each of the 13 colonies
Has the power to raise a military and navy, war and peace with the Native Americans, regulate trade, tax, and collect custom duties

15. Articles of Confederation
Established a firm league of friendship among the States; each state kept sovereignty, freedom, and independence

16. Ratification
Formal approval

17. Framers
Group of delegates who attended the Philadelphia convention

18. Virginia Plan
representation based solely on population

19. New Jersey Plan
states should be equally represented

20. Connecticut Compromise
Agreement that congress should be composed of two houses; smaller Senate (states are equal) and larger House (State Population)
Great compromise

21. Three – Fifths Compromise
Free person were counted, 3/5ths of the “other persons”

22. Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise
Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any state

23. Federalists People who favored ratification of the constitution
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton

24. Anti – Federalists Opposed ratification of the constitution
Patrick Henry, john Hancock, Samuel Adams