Civics Chapter 2 Test Review

Stated that society was created by a social contract.

• The Federalist Papers

• Magna Carta

• First Continental Congress

• Leviathan

Established the authority of Parliament.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Connecticut Compromise

• The Federalist Papers

Imposed an embargo on Britain.

• Limited government.

• Representative government.

• First Continental Congress.

• Magna Carta.

Gave colonists experience with limited self-government.

• Colonial charters and constitutions.

• Connecticut Compromise.

• Magna Carta.

• Unicameral Legislature.

Concept that a government's power is not absolute.

• Representative government

• Unicameral legislature

• Limited government

• Colonial charters and constitutions

Writings that supported adoption of the Constitution.

• The Federalist Papers

• Magna Carta

• Leviathan

• English Bill of Rights

Type of congress created by the Articles of Confederation.

• Connecticut Compromise

• Unicameral legislature

• Representative government

• Limited government

Resulted in a bicameral legislature.

• Connecticut Compromise

• First Continental Congress

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

A government in which citizens elect delegates.

• Limited government

• Representative government

• Unicameral legislature

• Colonial charters and constitutions

Recognized the rights of the English nobles.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• The Federalist Papers

• Leviathan