GOVT 200 - Ferdon - Exam 4 with complete solutions graded A+

GOVT 200 - Ferdon - Exam 4Significance of expeditions to U.S. for British/American Colonization, especially relative to Colonial American British Charters - correct answer the rights of Englishmen traveled across the ocean with them First Virginia Charter significance - correct answer Legal Authority for the first American colony First Virginia Charter date - correct answer 1606 Mayflower Compact significance - correct answer First political covenant in America Mayflower Compact date - correct answer 1620 Fundamental orders of CT significance - correct answer First federated republic in America Fundamental orders of CT date - correct answer 1629 Massachusetts Body of Liberties significance - correct answer First legal code Massachusetts Body of Liberties date - correct answer 1641 Virginia Constitution significance - correct answer Church and state separation doctrine VA Constitution date - correct answer 1776 Northwest Ordinance significance - correct answer Governed the territories of the U.S. Brought rights of Americans to the territories Northwest Ordinance date - correct answer 1787 Northwest Ordinance interaction w/ Article IV of the U.S. Constitution - correct answer First time Article IV was applicable Article IV - correct answer states have the right to join the union Who originally crafted the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence? - correct answer Committee of Five significance of "in Congress" in the title of the Declaration of Independence - correct answer treason towards Britain Declaration of Independence later ratified by... - correct answer Second Continental Congress Declaration Independence significance to American Constitutional Order and System - correct answer First American document Declaration of Independence - "Doctrine of the Lower Magistrate" - correct answer Second Continental Congress served as lower magistrate Richard Henry Lee Resolution of June 7, 1776 significance - correct answer Need to form government: Alliances Certain form of government to Control the 13 colonies "Laws of Nature and Nature's God" as America's legal claim - correct answer Gave us authority to separate from GB