Welch, Ch2

Question 1

What is nullification?

Answer 1

A doctrine that allows states states to nullify (ignore) and federal law which they think violates the constitution?

Question 2

What was Shays’s Rebellion?

Answer 2

A revolt of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787 to protest the state legislatures refusal to grant them to relief from debt

Question 3

What is a republic?

Answer 3

A form of government that derives its power from the power from the people and whose officials are accountable to the people

Question 4

What are the two houses of Congress?

Answer 4

• The House of Representatives

- Senate

Question 5

What is the house of representatives?

Answer 5

The representation would be based on population and members would be elected by voters

Question 6

What is the Senate?

Answer 6

Representation would be by state and members would be elected by state legislature

Question 7

What is the Great Compromise?

Answer 7

This is when the delegates nearly approved of dividing the congress into two parts

Question 8

What is the Three-fifths Compromise?

Answer 8

This was an agreement that 3/5 of the slave population would be counted in appointing seats to the house of reps

Question 9

What did the founders define democracy as?

Answer 9

They believed it meant direct democracy which allows citizens to vote on issues

Question 10

What did the founders define republic as?

Answer 10

The believed it meant indirect democracy which allows citizens to vote for their representatives, who then make government policies

Question 11

What does the initiative process do?

Answer 11

Allows citizens and interest groups to collect signatures on petitions and place a proposal onto ballot

Question 12

What is the referendum process?

Answer 12

Allows the legislature to put a proposal on the ballot

Question 13

What are recall elections?

Answer 13

This enables voters to remove officials from office before their term expires

Question 14

What was the executive branch intended to do?

Answer 14

It was intended to be strong, to have energy to administer the government and undertake diplomacy with foreign affairs

Question 15

What was the legislative branch intended to do?

Answer 15

Was intended to be even stronger than the executive branch. Congress was given the responsibility to declare war and unlimited authority to raise and maintain an army even in peace times. Had the power to print and coin money, impose taxes, regulate commerce, and negotiate and enforce treaties involving trade

Question 16

What is the supremacy clause?

Answer 16

A clause in the constitution that declares the constitution as the supreme law of the land and that any laws and treaties made “in pursuance thereof” also are the supreme law of the land

Question 17

What three concepts did the founding fathers build in order to prevent one specific group of people from rising above the rest?

Answer 17

Federalism, Separation of powers, and checks and balances?

Question 18

What is the division of power between the national govt and state govt called?

Answer 18

Federalism. This was a compromise between the confederal system which gave to much power to the states, and the unitary system which had to much national control

Question 19

What are “mischiefs of factions”?

Answer 19

Groups seeking something for themselves without regard for the rights of others or the well-being of all

Question 20

What is divided government?

Answer 20

This is when both political parties can be a part of the government

Question 21

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 21

This is when Abraham Lincoln said that the slaves, “shall be forever free”.

Question 22

What was the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 22

Speech by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to dedicate the battlefield where many people perished during the Civil War. Lincoln used this as an opportunity to advance his ideal of equality and to promote the Union

Question 23

What are the Reconstruction Amendments?

Answer 23

These were three amendments that were implemented to promise the equality and the vision of a unified nation rather than a collection of unified states

Question 24

What was he New Deal?

Answer 24

A program initiated by President Roosevelt in the 30’s aimed at stimulating economic recovery and aiding people of the Great Depression