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Chapter 8 Test Revie
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |