Chapter 7

Question 1

What is a bicameral legislature?

Answer 1

Government with two legislative houses

Question 2

What is a gov’t in which citizen rule through elected representatives?

Answer 2

Republic

Question 3

What was America’s 1st constitution?

Answer 3

The Articles of Confederation

Question 4

When was the article of confederation adopted (Month and Year)?

Answer 4

November 1777

Question 5

How many votes did each state get in Congress under the AoC?

Answer 5

One

Question 6

Why was the AoC unsuccessful?

Answer 6

Government wasn’t strong enough to handle all of the problems that the county had

Question 7

What created one territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and East of the Mississippi River?

Answer 7

Northwest ordinance

Question 8

The Northwest Ordinance was a _______ of ________ for the new settlers.

Answer 8

Bill-Rights

Question 9

The Northwest Ordinance was the first attempt to stop the spread of what?

Answer 9

Slavery

Question 10

What is the name of the state in modern Northeast Tennessee that tried to become the 14th state in America?

Answer 10

Franklin

Question 11

What year did Tennessee become a state and what number state was it?

Answer 11

16th in 1796

Question 12

What is a depression?

Answer 12

Slow economic activity and high employment

Question 13

What was Shays’ Rebellion?

Answer 13

Uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight the government’s taxes on poor farmers

Question 14

What were the two plans presented at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 14

Virginia- strong national government

New Jersey- strong state government

Question 15

What combined those two plans and established the model for Congress that is used to this day?

Answer 15

The great compromise

Question 16

What is the Three Fifths Compromise?

Answer 16

Allowed southern states to count slaves as 3/5 of one person

Question 17

Where would the southern states gain more delegates due to the Three Fifths Compromise?

Answer 17

Allowed southern states to gain more delegates in the House of Representatives

Question 18

What is the Three Fifths Compromise?

Answer 18

Allowed southern states to gain more delegates in the House of Representatives

Question 19

Where would the southern states gain more delegates due to the Three Fifths Compromise?

Answer 19

Allowed southern states to gain more delegates in the House of Representatives

Question 20

What was a Federalist?

Answer 20

People that supported the constitution

Question 21

What was a book of essays that supported the Constitution?

Answer 21

Federalist Papers

Question 22

What was a book of essays that supported the Constitution?

Answer 22

Federalist Papers

Question 23

What is an amendment?

Answer 23

Change in the constitution

Question 24

How many states approved the Constitution originally? ____ out of _____ States

Answer 24

9 out of 13

Question 25

What is the supreme law of the land?

Answer 25

The constitution

Question 26

What was James Madison considered to be the father of?

Answer 26

The constitution

Question 27

Who was an influential writer from the Enlightenment who believed every person had natural rights?

Answer 27

John Locke

Question 28

What type of system states that power should be shared between the national and state level gov’ts?

Answer 28

Federal system

Question 29

What is the final authority in a federal system?

Answer 29

The constitution

Question 30

What are the 3 branches of gov’t as stated in the Constitution?

Answer 30

Legislative Executive Judicial

Question 31

Which branch makes laws and consists of Congress?

Answer 31

Legislative

Question 32

Which branch carries out the laws?

Answer 32

Executive

Question 33

What did the Constitution have the AoC did not have?

Answer 33

President

Question 34

What power does the President have to check Congress?

Answer 34

Veto power

Question 35

Who elects the President of the United States?

Answer 35

The electoral college

Question 36

Which branch interprets laws and makes decisions based on the Con

Answer 36

Judicial

Question 37

What is the most distinctive feature of our gov’t?

Answer 37

Separation of powers

Question 38

Why did the Constitution provide a system of Checks and Balances?

Answer 38

To keep the branches at an equal amount of power

Question 39

Who's the most important person in the world?

Answer 39

RACHEL