Chapter7

Question 1

1)A change or addition to the Constitution.

Answer 1

Amendments

Question 2

2)a two house congress

Answer 2

Bicameral

Question 3

3)a balance of power between the different branches of government

Answer 3

Checks and balances

Question 4

4)a close alliance of states

Answer 4

Confederation

Question 5

5)the representatives who elect the president.

Answer 5

Electoral college

Question 6

6)the division of power between the national and state levels of government

Answer 6

Federalism

Question 7

7)official restrictions on the power of a government.

Answer 7

Limited government

Question 8

8)belief that the ultimate source of governmental power is vested in the people

Answer 8

Popular sovereignty

Question 9

9)the division of government into branches

Answer 9

Separations of power

Question 10

10)a one house congress

Answer 10

Unicameral

Question 11

11)an effort to settle trade disputes between the colonies.

Answer 11

Annapolis Convention(not successed)

Question 12

12)the first document to unite the American colonies under one government

Answer 12

Articles of the Confederation

Question 13

13)an effort to solve the weaknesses of the confederation

Answer 13

Constitutional convention(1787)

Question 14

14)a collection of essay supporting the Constitution

Answer 14

The Federalist

Question 15

15)the division of the Northwest into townships for sale and development.

Answer 15

Land ordinance of 1785

Question 16

16)an effort by military officers to force congress to pay their salaries and pensions

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Newburgh Conspiracy

Question 17

17)the creation of a three-stage plan to create states out of the Northwest territory.

Answer 17

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 18

18)a proposal to create ten equal states in the Northwest,to ban slavery,and to give away land to settlers.

Answer 18

Ordinance of 1784

Question 19

19)an effort by farmers to protect their lands from their creditors.

Answer 19

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 20

20)the official recognition of America’s independence.

Answer 20

Treaty of Paris

Question 21

21)the pseudonym the governor of New York used when he wrote articles denouncing the constitution.

Answer 21

Cato

Question 22

22)Term applied to the introduction to the Constitution.

Answer 22

Preamble

Question 23

23)His ideas provided the framework for the constitution

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James Madison

Question 24

24)Christian statesman who presented the compromise that broke the deadlock over representation in the Constitution.

Answer 24

Roger Sherman

Question 25

25)opponents to ratifying the Constitution.

Answer 25

Anti-Federalist

Question 26

26)the pseudonym Alexander Hamilton used when he wrote in response to Anti-Federalist articles

Answer 26

Publius

Question 27

27)this plan advocated a unicameral Congress with a one-state one-vote principal

Answer 27

New Jersey plan

Question 28

28)Supporters of the Constitution

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Federalist

Question 29

29)all lands north of the Ohio River.

Answer 29

Northwest Territory

Question 30

30)Silver and gold

Answer 30

Hard money

Question 31

31)under the settlement the slaves would counted as only a fraction in consideration of taxes and state representation.

Answer 31

Three-Fifths compromise

Question 32

32)this plan advocated a bicameral congress with a one-man one-vote principal

Answer 32

Virginia plan

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33)collected writings and speeches by opponents of the new Constitution.

Answer 33

Anti-federalist papers

Question 34

34)paper money whose value had plummeted

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Continental dollars

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35)plan the proposed representation in the lower house based on state population,and representation in the senate be equal for all states regardless of size

Answer 35

Great compromise(Connecticut compromise)

Question 36

36)what was American single greatest contribution to political thought?

Answer 36

Constitution

Question 37

37)Why did the colonists create a weak confederation?

Answer 37

Each colony was jealous of its power.

Question 38

38)which are the following principle is the most strongly supported by articles of confederation

Answer 38

Limited government

Question 39

39)selling price for Northwest territory

Answer 39

$1.00 per acre

Question 40

40)the most important of a accomplishment of the Annapolis convention

Answer 40

Calling a new convention to remedy

Question 41

41)which of the following issue did not require major debate in the Constitutional convention

Answer 41

Power of the executive

Question 42

42)which of the following disputed did the confederation settle?

Answer 42

Western lands

Question 43

43)what region was most concerned about granting the federal government control over trade?

Answer 43

The South

Question 44

44)In the original constitution who was elected directly by the people

Answer 44

House of representatives

Question 45

45)on what were townships in the Northwest supposed to use the proceeds from the sale of section16?

Answer 45

Schools

Question 46

46)what bicameral plan did the large states support at the constitutional convention?

Answer 46

Virginia plan

Question 47

47)what unicameral plan did the small states support at the constitutional convention?

Answer 47

New Jersey plan

Question 48

48)Which of the following was not a provision of the trade agreement reached by the constitutional convention?

Answer 48

Slavery would be banned in twenty years

Question 49

49)which of the following principles was not included in the constitution

Answer 49

Divine sovereignty

Question 50

50)Who said,thus i consent,sir,to this constitution because i expect no better,and because i am not sure ,that it is not the best"?

Answer 50

Benjamin Franklin