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Chapter 1
Social Studies Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the leaders of the states make the people pay in order to run the country? | Taxes |
| Who started a fight because he didn't want to pay taxes in silver? | Daniel Shays |
| Who left Mount Vernon and went to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia? | George Washington |
| What word best describes George Washington? Selfish, unselfish, power-seeking, or cowardly? | Unselfish |
| What were the rules called that kept the colonies together? | Articles of Confederation |
| What did the men do at the Constitutional Convention? | Followed rules concerning the meeting |
| What were the rules made by the Separatists in the New World called? | Mayflower Compact |
| Who said this? "The Articles will not work anymore. We must write a whole new set of laws. We must write a Constitution." | James Madison |
| The men agreed that the new government should have three parts. What do we call those parts? | Branches |
| What were the two groups of the government that made laws called? | The House of Representatives and the Senate |
| What did the Great Compromise decide? | How many votes each state would get |
| What is a census? | When the government counts the people |
| What is the Constitution? | The laws for the new country, "the law of the land" |
| Why did the Constitutional Convention meet? | To write the laws for the new country |
| Who said this? He would not sign the Constitution. "Slavery brings the judgement of heaven on a country." | George Mason |
| What word means "to approve or agree to"? | Ratify |
| What is the Preamble? | Words that go before |
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