1.6-1.10 ✔️

Question 1

1 house system.

Answer 1

Unicameral

Question 2

Two house system.

Answer 2

Bicameral

Question 3

Name for the measure that reconciled the New jersy and Viginia Plans at the constitutional convention, giving states proportional representation in the house, and equal representation in the senate. The compromise broke the stalemate at the convention and paved the way for subsequent compromises over slavery and the Electoral college

Answer 3

Great Compromise

Question 4

The meeting of 1787 to rewrite the articles of confederation. (was supposed to amend it but they ended up removing it entirely)

Answer 4

Constitutional Convention

Question 5

Lower house + upper house of representatives.

Answer 5

Electoral College

Question 6

3 out of 5 slaves would be counted as people for representation and taxation purposes.

Answer 6

3/5ths compromise

Question 7

Slave trade couldn’t be banned before 1808

Answer 7

Slave trade clause

Question 8

Proponents of the 1787 Constitution, they favored a strong national government, arguing that the checks and balances in the new Constitution would safe-guard people’s liberties, feared mobocracy (wealthy and educated should lead), favored shipping and manufacturing interests, alliance with Britain, powerbase in north and coastal areas.

Answer 8

Federalists

Question 9

Opponents of the 1787 constitution, they cast the document as antidemocratic, objected to the subordination of the states to the central government and feared encroachment of individuals’ liberties in the absence of a bill of right.

Answer 9

Anti Federalists

Question 10

A type of government style where the government has more power.

Answer 10

Federalism

Question 11

Where each branch holds the others accountable so no one branch is the most powerful.

Answer 11

checks and balances

Question 12

3 branches of government

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Separation of Powers

Question 13

When the minority is in power

Answer 13

Tyranny of the minority

Question 14

when the majority overrules and opressses the rest.

Answer 14

Tyranny of the Majority

Question 15

Allows congress to employ means to help it do its duty

Answer 15

Necessary and Proper Clause

Question 16

Philosophy that government has limited power.

Answer 16

Limited Government

Question 17

Political theory of representative government based on the principle of popular sovereignty, with a strong emphasis on liberty and civic virtue.

Answer 17

Republicanism

Question 18

Popular term for the first 10 amendments to the US constitution. The amendments secure key rights for individuals and reserved to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the constitution.

Answer 18

Bill of Rights

Question 19

Religious and political freedom amendment.

Answer 19

1st Amendment

Question 20

Right to bear arms amendment

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2nd Amendment

Question 21

Powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people amendment

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10th Amendment

Question 22

Powers given to the congress explicitly.

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Enumerated Powers

Question 23

Powers not given to the government but to the states.

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Reserved powers

Question 24

Two parties - Federalists and democratic-republicans system

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First party System

Question 25

Wanted strong state gov, strict construction, gov should be in the hands of the common people, favored agricultural interests, favored alliance with France, power base in South and west.

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Democratic Republicans

Question 26

Popular uprising of whiskey distillers in southwestern Pennsylvania in opposition to an excise tax on whiskey. In a show of strength and resolve by the new central government, Washington put down the rebellion with militia drawn from several states. (sponsored by rich merchants)

Answer 26

Whiskey Rebellion 1794

Question 27

A central bank for the government. Would allow the government to take out loans, have its own credit and would also provide a standardized currency.

Answer 27

National Bank

Question 28

A tax on foreign imports or exports

Answer 28

Tariff

Question 29

A letter written by Washington near the end of his term.

Answer 29

Washington’s Farewell Address

Question 30

The belief that the constitution should be interpretated narrowly, with the federal government limited to powers explicitly stated

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Strict Constructionism

Question 31

The belief that the constitution should be interpreted according to the time. (not strictly)

Answer 31

Loose Constructionism

Question 32

Judges could decide whether a law was constitutional or unconstitutional.

Answer 32

Judicial Review

Question 33

Supreme court case that established the principle of “judicial review” - the idea that the supreme court had the final authority to determine constitutionality

Answer 33

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Question 34

Supreme court case that strengthened federal authority and upheld the constitutionality of the bank of the US by establishing that the state of Maryland did not have the power to tax the bank

Answer 34

McCulloch VS Maryland (1819)

Question 35

Passed by the departing Federalist Congress, it created 16 new federal judgeships (federal judgeship - federal position, office, or function of a judge) ensuring a federalist hold on the judiciary.

Answer 35

Judiciary Act of 1801

Question 36

Powers not explicitly given to the government but were implied. (Similar: Elastic clause)

Answer 36

Implied powers