Vocab

Question 1

What was the Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise?

Answer 1

an agreement between all states to use two different forms of representation for the two different houses of Congress

Question 2

What was the Marbury v. Madison Trial?

Answer 2

established judicial review which allows the Supreme Court to rule a law unconstitutional and void the law

Question 3

What is the Declaration of Independance?

Answer 3

Document adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. Signed by representatives from all 13 colonies. The document outlined the complaints the colonists had abut Great Britain and officially declared the US Free from British rule.

Question 4

What were Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 4

laws written after reconstruction that enforced segregation in the South. Restricted the civil rights of black citizens, such as voting and educational equalities

Question 5

What was the voting rights act of 1965?

Answer 5

passed in an attempt to eliminate legal barriers to voting