Chapter 7Exam Study Guide

Question 0

Depression

Answer 0

A period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases

Question 1

Manumission

Answer 1

The freeing on individual enslaved persons

Question 2

Depreciation

Answer 2

To fall in value

Question 3

Constitution

Answer 3

Plan of government

Question 4

Bicameral

Answer 4

Two house legislature

Question 5

Amendment

Answer 5

Addition or change to a document

Question 6

Republic

Answer 6

A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives

Question 7

Federal system (a.k.a FEDERALISM)

Answer 7

The division of power between national and state government

Question 8

Anti-Federalist

Answer 8

Supporters of strong state government

Against the constitution

Question 9

Federalist

Answer 9

Supporters of the constitution

Wanted strong central government

Question 10

Checks & Balances

Answer 10

Keeps any one branch from gaining too much powder

Question 11

Leader @ the Constitutional Convention

Answer 11

GW

Question 12

Who suggested the Great Compromise

Answer 12

Roger Sherman
Senate made small states happy: =representation
H.o.R made large states happy: representation based on population

Question 13

Legislature most states had

Answer 13

Bicameral legislature

Question 14

States needed to change the Articles of Confederation

Answer 14

13

Question 15

States needed to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation

Answer 15

9

Question 16

Helped stop the spread of slavery to the West

Answer 16

NorthWest Ordinance

Question 17

State that kept its colonial charter as it’s constitution

Answer 17

RI

Question 18

**Most distinctive feature in the U.S. Constitution***

Answer 18

The federal system

Question 19

How does the president check Congress?

Answer 19

Could veto laws

Question 20

How does congress check the president?

Answer 20

The power to impeach