| Question |
Answer |
| What was the Great Compromise? | it balanced representation between small and large states by giving each state 2 senators and basing representatives on population. |
| What was the Three-Fifths Compromise? | decided that each slave would count as 3/5ths of a person for taxation and representation. |
| What are unalienable rights? | rights that people have naturally, including life, liberty and pursuit of happiness |
| What happenedi n 1787? | constitutional convention |
| What were the anti-federalists worried about? | That the strong national government set up by the Constitution would take rights away from the people and the states. |
| What is "states rights?" | idea that states have rights and the national government should respect them.cause of the Nullification Crisis and Civil War |
| What happened in 1832 that tested the new nation? | South Carolina threatened to secede if the national government did not nullify thier high tariffs. |
| What amendment granted women the right to vote? | 19th |
| What amendment allowed for senators to be directly elected by the people? | 17th |
| What amendment began the income tax? | 16th |
| What amendment outlawed poll taxes to allow african americans to vote? | 24th |
| What amendment set the voting age at 18, after the Vietnam War? | 26th |
| What is the Prohibition amendment? | 18th |
| What are the 7 principles of the US Constitution? | individual rights, popular sovereigntyseparation of powers, checks and balancesrepublicanism, federalism, limited government |
Ch.18 LTI-MA 509
