Chapter 7 Test Review
On your own blank paper(s), write information
concerning the following terms, people or ideas of
Chapter 7. Be very detailed in describing each one. DO
NOT just write a definition! EXPLAIN the item
completely.
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Roger Sherman - suggested the Great Compromise
George Washington - Presided over the Constitutional Convention
that wrote the US Constitution
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Northwest Ordinance - The Law that helped stop the spread of
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slavery to the West
Bicameral- type of legislature most states establish
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Articles of Confederation –America’s first Constitution – very weak
Depression - a period when economic activity slows and
unemployment increases
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Vetoing - The President can check Congress with this
Separation of powers- the most distinctive feature of the U.S.
Government
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Federal system- divides the power between the national ,or
federal, government and the states
Checks and balances- What keeps any one branch of government
from gaining too much power
Republic - a government in which citizen’s rule through elected
representatives
Federalism - The division of powers between the national government
and the states
Federalists - supporters of the Constitution
The Ordinance of 1785- Law that helped stop the spread of
slavery to the West
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The Virginia Plan- favored large states- 2 house legislature a, a
chief executive, and a court system
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The New Jersey Plan – favored small states – 1 vote for each state
The Great Compromise – a product of the Grand Committee
The Federalists Papers - book of essays explaining and
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supporting the Constitution
Enlightenment - The movement that influenced the Constitution’s
architects
Shays’ Rebellion – movement of angry farmers who did not want
their land taken by the government
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Slave trade- North doesn’t want it/ South thinks it is essential to their
economies- Congress won’t interfere until 1808
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Electoral College- how we elect the President of the United States –
sometimes referred to as the Electoral College
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Bill of Rights –Protects our individual freedoms/rights
Magna Carta - 1215 – placed limits on the monarch
Edmund Randolph- at the Constitutional Convention – supported
the national government
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Anti-Federalists –did not support the Constitution
3 branches of Government –
Legislative – Law making branch
Judicial – Court system
Executive – President
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John Locke- philosopher during the
Enlightenment Period, wrote the
Second Treatise of Government
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2 states that kept Colonial Charter instead of writing a
Constitution - Rhode Island & Connecticut
3/5’s Compromise – Counted slaves as 3/5th’s of a person for taxation
as well as representation purposes
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Robert Morris’s tax plan – He was the head of finance for the
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U.S. He wanted a 5% tax on imported good to help pay the national debt.
Did not pass b/c Rhode Island opposed it
Manumission – the freeing of individual enslaved persons
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English Bill of Rights – Basis for our Bill of Rights in the U.S.