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Chapter 8 Test Revie
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Question | Answer |
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Virginia Plan. | (in detail)proposed a government with three branches |
Executive Branch | government department that enforces laws |
Judicial Branch | government department that interprets laws |
Legislative Branch | government that makes laws |
Lower house | elected by the people |
Upper house | elected by the lower house |
What was the Great Compromise? | agreement each state would have an equal number of votes in the senate but the house of representatives was set according to state population |
What was the disagreement on how to count the slave population? | representation in the house of representatives |
Describe the Three Fifths Compromise? | Three |
What was the other point of disagreement over slavery? | the disagreement was weather to allow slavery to expand into new states or not and congress could not ban the slave trade until 1880 |
Shay’s Rebellion | uprising of massachusetts farmers |
Northwest Territory | lands of northwest |
Articles of Confederation | plan for national government |
Confederation Congress | national legislative |
Land Ordinance of 1785 | law |
Northwest Ordinance | law that describe northwest territory |
Republic | state |
Ratification | confirmation of act |
Constitutional Convention | 1787 meeting |
James Madison | prominent adviser |
Virginia Plan | proposal for a two house legislature |
New Jersey Plan | proposal for a legislature |
Great Compromise | agreement |
Three | fifths Compromise |
Executive Branch | government department |
Judicial Branch | government department that interprets laws |
Legislative Branch | government makes laws |
Checks and Balances | the ability of each branch |
Anti | Federalists People who opposed ratification |
Federalism | system |
Federalists– ratification | |
He ability of each branThe Federalists Papers | ratification essay |
Bill of Rights | The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. |
NORTHWEST TERRITORY | lands northwest of the applications |
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION | plan for national government ratified in 1781 |
CONFEDERATION CONGRESS | national legislative body formed by articles |
LAND ORDINANCE OF 1785 | law that established a plan |
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE | law that described how how the northwest territory |
LIST THE PROBLEMS WITH BRITAIN AND SPAINbritan competed against the american fur trade | |
LIST THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS THE NATION FACED | Economic slowdown, Increasing debt burdenInflation,Geopolitical tensions. |
SHAYS REBELLION | war |