Chapter 7 vocab. (all sections)

Question 0

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 0

Set up system that surveyed the Northwest Territory and split it into townships

Question 1

Articles of Confederation

Answer 1

The first American constitution

Question 2

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 2

Set up a government for the Northwest Territory (set up basic rights, outlawed slavery, and stated that once a region had 60,000 free settlers it could be known as a state by Congress)

Question 3

Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 3

About 2,000 farmers who attacked courthouses and prevented states from seizing farms because they were losing their money and they had to pay tax

Question 4

Execute

Answer 4

To carry out [laws]

Question 5

Constitution

Answer 5

A document that sets laws and principles for a government

Question 6

Confederation

Answer 6

Alliance of independent states

Question 7

Ordinance

Answer 7

Laws

Question 8

Economic depression

Answer 8

Period of time when business activity slows, prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises

Question 9

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 9

3/5 of the slaves in the Southern states were counted in the population for the amount representatives

Question 10

Great Compromise

Answer 10

Every state (no matter what size) has 2 senators in the Senate

Question 11

Compromise

Answer 11

Both sides give up something to reach an agreement

Question 12

Roger Sherman

Answer 12

From Connecticut, made up the Great Compromise

Question 13

New Jersey Plan

Answer 13

Plan for 3 branches of government and one house that each state had one vote in

Question 14

Judicial branch

Answer 14

Interprets the laws

Question 15

Executive branch

Answer 15

Enforces the laws

Question 16

Legislative branch

Answer 16

Makes the laws

Question 17

Virginia plan

Answer 17

Plan that galled for 3 branches of government

Question 18

James Madison

Answer 18

Form Virginia, researched before coming to the convention, called the “father of the Constitution”

Question 19

Constitutional Convention

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Opened on May 25th, 1787 in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation

Question 20

Impeach

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To bring charges against

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Override

Answer 21

Overrule

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Vetoing

Answer 22

Rejecting

Question 23

Bills

Answer 23

Proposed laws

Question 24

Checks and balances

Answer 24

Keeps one branch of government becoming too powerful

Question 25

Electoral college

Answer 25

The people who vote for the President (538) (electors from each state depending on population)

Question 26

Federalism

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The division of power between the national government and the states

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Separation of powers

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The idea of separating the government into 3 branches

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Wrote The Spirit of the Laws, urged for the government to be separated into the 3 branches

Question 29

John Locke

Answer 29

Wrote Two Treatises on Government

Question 30

Enlightenment

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Enlightenment thinkers believed that people could improve society through the use of reason

Question 31

Mayflower Compact

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The first document of self-government, signed by the Pilgrim leaders in 1620

Question 32

House of Burgesses

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First representative government, set up in Virginia by the colonists in 1619

Question 33

English Bill of Rights

Answer 33

Limited the power of the monarchies in Britain, written in 1689

Question 34

Magna Carta

Answer 34

Limited the power of the British rulers

Question 35

Republic

Answer 35

Government where rule themselves through elected representatives

Question 36

Ratify

Answer 36

Approve

Question 37

Federalists

Answer 37

People in favor of the Constitution

Question 38

Antifederalists

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People who opposed the Constitution because it gave the national government too much power and it originally didn’t have a bill of rights

Question 39

The Federalist Papers

Answer 39

Written by the Federalists to defend the Constitution

Question 40

Amend

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Change

Question 41

Bill of Rights

Answer 41

The first 10 amendments of the Constitution

Question 42

Due process

Answer 42

The government needs to follow the law also