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Mr. Belyea
Social Studies Unit 5- Lesson 2 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| delegate | a person who represents other people at a meeting |
| Constitutional Convention | a meeting where delegates came up with the Constitution |
| Virginia Plan | a plan giving states with more people more representatives |
| New Jersey Plan | a plan giving each state the same number of representatives |
| Compromise | a agreement reached after each side fives up something |
| Great Compromise | a plan that split Congress into the House of Representatives and the Senate |
| Three-Fifths Compromise | counting only some enslaved people as part of a state's population |
| Preamble | the beginning part of the Constitution |
| reserved powers | powers that are "reserved" or left for the states |
| separation of powers | dividing a government into branches with separate powers |
| checks and balances | a system to make sure that no branch of governement becomes too powerful |
| veto | to refuse to sign into law |
| What was the Constitutional Convention | delegates from the states met in May 1787 to change the Articles of Confederation |
| What did James Madison want | a new Constitution |
| What did James Madison write | The Virginia Plan |
| What did the Virginia Plan create | executive and judicial branches of government, it gave larger states more delegates in Congress than smaller states |
| What did the delegates from smaller states do | the wrote The New Jersey Plan |
| What did the The New Jersey Plan state | the plan gave every state the same number of delegates in Congress |
| what was the Great Compromise | the delegates finally compromised and came to an agreement which split Congress into two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives |
| Whate were the two parts of Congress | the Senate and the House of Representatives |
| What was the Senate | every state would have two delegates |
| what was the House of Representatives | states with more people would have more delegates than states with fewer people |
| what else did the delegates agree to | the Three-Fifths Compromise |
| What was the Three-Fifths Compromise | it stated that only three out of every five enslaved people could be counted as part of a state's population |
| what does the Preamble tell | the Constitutions Goals |
| What is the Preamble of the Constitution | to protect the country and the people |
| who has power in the Constitution | some powers go to national government and some powers go to the states |
| what are the states powers called | reserved powers |
| what 3 parts does the Constitution divide the country's government into | three branches, the Legislative Branch, Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch |
| Who makes up the Legislative Branch | Congress |
| Who leads the Executive Branch | the President |
| What is part of Judicial Branch | The Supreme Court |
| what is it called when you divide the government into three parts | separation of powers |
| what system does the Constitution have and give example | Checks and balances, congress can pass a law and the President can Veto a law congress wants |
| when was the constitution ratified | september 1787 |
| what had to happen in order for constitution to become a law | 9 out of the 13 states had to agree to the Constitution |
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