Chapter 6 Identification

Question 1

written constitution that stated as law what the Continental Congress was already doing in fact

Answer 1

Articles of Confederation

Question 2

chief American negotiator of the Peace Paris

Answer 2

John Jay

Question 3

formally ended the War for American Indepence

Answer 3

Treaty of Paris

Question 4

provided a way to govern lands bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and the great Lakes while they were growing from territory to statehood

Answer 4

Northwest Ordinance

Question 5

marked the 1st time an American court ruled a law unconstitutional

Answer 5

Trevett v. Weeden

Question 6

Lent prestige to the Constitutional Convention because of his long and distinguished career

Answer 6

Benjamin Franklin

Question 7

presided over the Constitutional Convention

Answer 7

George Washington

Question 8

did most of the writing among the younger men of the Constitutional Convention

Answer 8

James Madison

Question 9

delagates had been authorized by their state legislatures only to try to patch up the Articles of Confederation but they delegates elected a chairman and drafted the US Constitution

Answer 9

Constitutional Convention

Question 10

feeling of national identity and pride

Answer 10

Nationalism

Question 11

resolved the differences between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan

Answer 11

Great Compromise

Question 12

compromise that allowed slaves to be counted in determining the number of representatives a state could have in Congress

Answer 12

Three-fifths Compromise

Question 13

Branch of government charged with carrying out laws

Answer 13

Executive branch

Question 14

Law making branch of government

Answer 14

Legislative branch

Question 15

Branch of government charged with interpreting and enforcing laws

Answer 15

Judicial branch

Question 16

System of which each branch of the federal government

Answer 16

Checks and balances

Question 17

state conventions to ratify the constitution

Answer 17

Ratifying Conventions

Question 18

idea that the US government has certain powers and state governments have certian other powers

Answer 18

Federalism

Question 19

Co-author of the Federalist Papers; he led the Federalists at the New York ratifying convention

Answer 19

Alexander Hamilton

Question 20

series of newspaper articles that explained and defended the new constitution

Answer 20

Federalist Papers