GOVT 200 Liberty University -GOVT 200 Exam 4 Ferdon questions n answers graded A+

GOVT 200 Exam 4 What is the significance of the failed expeditions of Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert in regards to Colonial American/British Charters? - correct answer They succeeded in conveying the Rights of Englishmen across the Atlantic as Chartered Liberties. First Virginia Charter - correct answer 1606 → Authority for the first colony of Britain, authority came along with Rights of Englishmen Mayflower Compact - correct answer 1620 → Represents America's first political document written by English Separatists during their voyage to Virginia. It embodies a doctrine of consent, covenant, and local self-government. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - correct answer 1639 → Rests upon the express purpose of specifically defining and enumerating the organs of political government - describes a federation of sovereign individual towns which also granted authority to a central civil organ called the "General Court." - whatever powers had not been granted remained with these towns (townships). Massachusetts Body of Liberties - correct answer 1641 → First legal code of New England to incorporate English Common Law (Magna Charta) and Puritan Theology Virginia Constitution - correct answer June 29th, 1776 → Entails separation of Church and State Northwest Ordinance - correct answer 1787 → Incorporated doctrine of disestablishment of Church and State, First enactment of Articles of Confederation, People living in territories given some rights as colonist What is the relationship between the Northwest Ordinance and Article IV of the U.S. Constitution? - correct answer Both set standards for territories to become states