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Ch. 7 confederation
Review for Ch. 7 A more perfect Union
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plan of goverment | constitution |
| Two house legislature | Bicameral |
| to fall in value | depreciate |
| freeing of individual enslaved persons | manumission |
| addition to a document | amendment |
| A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives | republic |
| How many states are needed to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation? | 13 |
| The division of powers between the national government and the states | federal system |
| Supporters of the new Constitution | Federalists |
| A period when economic activity slow and unemployment increases | depression |
| Who suggested the Great Compromise? | Roger Sherman |
| Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention? | John Adams |
| Under the federal system, who has the final authority? | Constitution |
| What type of legislatures did most states establish? | bicameral |
| believed all people had natural rights | John Locke |
| proposed that government powers be separate and balanced | Baron de Montesquieu |
| introduced the Virginia Plan | Edmund Randolph |
| author of the Virginia Plan | James Madison |
| proposed the Great Compromise | Roger Sherman |
| Which law helped stop the spread of slavery to the west? | Northwest Ordinance |
| Keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power | checks and balances |
| What state kept its colonial charter as its constitution? | Rhode Island |
| The president can check Congress through | vetoing |
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