Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins Part 19

2. What was needed to make such claims of any value?

3. The London and Plymouth companies:--

a. The time and purpose of their organization.

b. The grant to the London Company.

c. The grant to the Plymouth Company.

d. The magnitude of the zones granted.

e. The peculiar provisions for the intermediate zone.

f. First attempts at settlement.

4. To what important principle of the common charter of these two companies did the colonists persistently cling?

5. The influence of these short-lived companies upon the settlement and government of the United States:--

a. A review of the zones and their a.s.signment.

b. The states of the northern zone and their origin.

c. The states of the southern zone and their origin.

d. The states of the middle zone and their origin.

e. The influence of the movement of population on local government in each zone.

6. Early state government in Virginia:--

a. The part appointed and the part elected.

b. The first legislative body in America.

c. The dignity of its members.

d. The reason for the name "House of Burgesses."

7. Early state government in Ma.s.sachusetts:--

a. The Dorchester Company.

b. The government provided for the Company of Ma.s.sachusetts Bay by its charter.

c. The real purpose of the Puritan leaders.

d. The change from the primary a.s.sembly of freemen to the representative a.s.sembly.

e. The division of this a.s.sembly into two houses, with a comparison of the houses.

f. The reason for the name "General Court."

g. The loss of the charter and the causes that led to it.

h. The new charter as compared with the old.

8. Compare the early governments of Connecticut and Rhode Island with the first government of Ma.s.sachusetts.

9. What two kinds of state government have thus far been observed?

10. Early state government in Maryland:--

a. The favouritism of the crown as shown in land grants.

b. The palatine counties of England.

c. The bishopric of Durham the model of the colony of Maryland.

d. The extraordinary privileges granted Lord Baltimore.

e. The tribute to be paid in return.

f. The ruler a feudal long.

g. Limitations of the ruler's power.

11. Early state government in Pennsylvania and Delaware:--

a. The powers of Penn as compared with those of Calvert.

b. One governor and council, c. The legislature of each colony.

d. The quarrels of the Penns and Calverts.

e. Mason and Dixon's line.

12. What other proprietary governments were organized, and what was their fate?

13. Why were proprietary governments unpopular? (Note the exceptions, however.)

14. Cla.s.sify and define the forms of colonial government in existence at the beginning of the Revolution.

15. Show that these forms differed chiefly in respect to the governor's office.

16. A representative a.s.sembly in each of the thirteen colonies:--

a. The basis of representation.

b. The control of the public money.

c. The spontaneousness of the representative a.s.sembly.

17. The governor's council:--

a. The custom in England.

b. The council as an upper house.

c. The council in Pennsylvania.

18. Compare the colonial systems with the British (1) in organization and (2) in the nature of their political quarrels.

19. What was the American theory of the relation of each colony to the British parliament?

20. What was the American att.i.tude towards maritime regulations?

21. What was the British theory of the relation of the American colonies to parliament?

22. How was the Revolutionary War brought on?

23. Describe the last act of parliament that brought matters to a crisis.

Section 2. _The Transition from Colonial to State Governments._

[Sidenote: Dissolution of a.s.semblies and parliaments.]

[Sidenote: Committees of Correspondence.]