Chapter 7 Study Guide

Question 1

What is bicameral legislature?

Answer 1

2 houses

Question 2

What is a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives?

Answer 2

Republic

Question 3

What was America’s 1st constitution?

Answer 3

Articles of Confederation

Question 4

When was the Articles 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 vote

Question 6

Why was the AoC unsuccessful?

Answer 6

Because the government it provided was not strong enough to handle all of the problems of the country

Question 7

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

Answer 7

North West 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

1796; 16th

Question 12

What is a depression?

Answer 12

Slow economic activity and high unemployment

Question 13

An uprising by Massachusetts farmers to fight the government’s taxes on poor farmers was called

Answer 13

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 14

What were the two plans presented at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 14

Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan

Question 15

What combined the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan and established the model for Congress that is us d to this day?

Answer 15

The Great Compromise

Question 16

A compromise that allowed Southern states to count slaves as 3/5of one free person for representation

Answer 16

The Three Fifths Compromise

Question 17

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

Answer 17

The House of Representatives

Question 18

People that supported the constitution were called

Answer 18

A federalist

Question 19

A book of essays that supported the Constitution

Answer 19

The Federalist Papers

Question 20

Changes to the Constitution are called

Answer 20

Amendments

Question 21

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

Answer 21

9;13

Question 22

What is the Supreme law of the land?

Answer 22

The Constitution

Question 23

What was James Madison considered to be the father of?

Answer 23

The constitution

Question 24

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

Answer 24

John Locke

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Federal system

Question 26

What is the final authority in a federal system?

Answer 26

The Constitution

Question 27

What are the three branches of government?

Answer 27

Legislative, executive, and judicial

Question 28

Which branch makes laws and consisted of congress?

Answer 28

Legislative branch

Question 29

Which branch carries out the laws?

Answer 29

Executive branch

Question 30

What did the Constitution have the Articles of Confederation did not have?

Answer 30

A president

Question 31

What power does the President have to check Congress?

Answer 31

Veto power

Question 32

Who elects the President of the United States?

Answer 32

The Electoral College

Question 33

Which branch interprets laws and makes decisions based on the Constitution?

Answer 33

Judicial Branch

Question 34

What is the most distinctive feature of our government?

Answer 34

The separation of powers

Question 35

Why did the Constitution provide a system of checks and balances?

Answer 35

It keeps one branch from gaining too much power