Documents

Using the links given, learn about the following three documents. Write your answers in your 3-ring, be sure each document is clearly listed and that the answers to the questions are written either in complete sentences with clear subject and verb (so you can understand the answers later) or in Q & A form. Either way, title your homework, "The Documents which Contributed to the Constitution."

1. The Magna Carta: [] a. The document was an agreement between whom? b. What rights were guaranteed by the Magna Carta?

2. The Mayflower Compact [] a. What was the Mayflower Compact? b. How did this document influence the Constitution and the founding of the US?

3. Use this link to [] answer the following 1. When was the AOC (Articles of Confederation) written? Adopted? Operative? 2. What did it do? 3. Under the AOC, where was the largest amount of governmental power? Why? 4. What could the federal government do under the AOC? 5. What could the federal government not do under the AOC?