Chapter 5 Study Guide
1. Where did George Washington go to retire after giving up his command of the American Army?
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2. What did most people of this time, see themselves as a citizen of?
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3. What is an alliance of separate governments that work together, called?
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4. What set of laws did the Continental Congress adopt in 1777 to govern the United States?
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5. Where did most of the power lie, under the Articles of Confederation?
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6. What part of our current government is responsible for making laws?
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7. What part of our government interprets and applies the laws?
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8. What part of our government is responsible for putting the laws into action?
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9. What did Congress lack the power to do under the Articles of Confederation?
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10. What is a plan of government that describes the different parts of the government as well as its duties and
powers?
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11. What kind of legislature did Pennsylvania have under its original constitution?
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12. What kind of government is run by the people through their elected representatives?
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13. What group of people wanted to strengthen the national government?(Pre-Constitution)
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14. What famous government did the Nationalists NOT want to follow in the footsteps of?
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15. What was the one thing accomplished in the Annapolis Convention?
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16. What skirmish was started by farmers who could not afford to pay their taxes?
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17. What is another name for gold or silver coin?
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18. What is the only state which did not attend the Philadelphia Convention in 1787?
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19. What is the current name of the building where the Constitution was constructed?
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20. What nickname was given to James Madison because of the time he put into the Constitution?
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21. What was the first act of the Continental Convention?
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22. What is another term for “revise”?
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23. Who introduced the Virginia Plan?
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24. Under the Virginia Plan, what would the amount of representatives, be based on?
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25. What word means to “prohibit from becoming law, any act of a state legislature”?
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26. Who wrote the New Jersey Plan, which was the opposition to the Virginia Plan?
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27. What was the final solution to the debate between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
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28. What document determined what amount of a state’s slave population, counted in establishing a state’s
representation in Congress?
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29. What is one word that can easily describe our Nation’s Constitution?
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30. Where are the Constitution’s goals stated?
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31. What kind of government has power shared by both the state and national authorities?
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32. What is it called when the legislative, executive, and judicial branches all have their own areas of authority?
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33. What part of the Constitution gives each branch the power to stop others in certain ways?
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34. What are the names of the two legislative houses under the Constitution?
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35. Who was the ultimate leader of the armed forces under the Constitution?
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36. What name is given to the group of electors who elect the president?
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37. What is the only court named under the Constitution?
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38. What did 9 of 13 states have to do for the Constitution to become law?
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39. What name was given to the people who wanted a strong national government?(Post Constitution)
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40. What name was given to the people who felt a strong national government would bring down the United
States of America?
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41. What did people such as Alexander Hamilton and James Madison write in support of the Constitution?
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42. What name is given to a group who is only concerned with its own interests?
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43. Where did the Anti-Federalists seem to gain support?
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44. What did some Anti-Federalists see the Constitution as a betrayal of?
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45. Who had served as head of the Constitutional Convention in 1787?
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46. What states did not approve the Constitution?
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47. What name is given to the first ten amendments of the Constitution?
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48. What group of people was against the addition of the first ten amendments?
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49. Who was the main person to back the “Bill of Rights”?
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50. What right is granted under the 2nd Amendment?
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51. What name was given to the building which was the temporary home of our government in 1789?
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52. What did George Washington do after repeating the oath to become president?
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53. What name is given to the official swearing-in process of our president?
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54. What kind of decision was George Washington elected with, from the Electoral College?
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55. What name is given to the heads of the major departments of the executive branch?
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56. What executive position handles relations with foreign countries?
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57. What was Thomas Jefferson’s job after being the chief author of the Declaration of Independence?
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58. What is another name for a country’s internal matters?
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59. What school did Thomas Jefferson found?
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60. What did Thomas Jefferson use for labor on his farm?
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61. What is the current name of the college which Alexander Hamilton attended?
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62. What is another word for the (4) years a president is in office?
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63. Something which is done or said and then becomes an example or rule to be followed in the future is called
a (an)
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64. What is the official name, now given to the President of the United States?
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65. What happened to Washington after his first term in office, ended?
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66. After Washington’s first year as President, where was the capital set up?
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67. Where was George Washington’s official home?
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68. What was the original name of our current national capital?
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69. What was the name of the mathematician who surveyed our national capital?
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70. What did Pierre-Charles L’Enfant design to be the new home of Congress?
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