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Chapter 3 Vocab Quiz

Quiz by Heather Cox

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  • Q1
    a detailed, written plan for government
    Constitution
    30s
  • Q2
    A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
    Bicameral
    30s
  • Q3
    a group of individuals or state governments
    Confederation
    30s
  • Q4
    the first constitution of the United States
    Articles of Confederation
    30s
  • Q5
    to vote approval of
    Ratify
    30s
  • Q6
    a law, usually of a city or country
    Ordinance
    30s
  • Q7
    a law that set up a plan for surveying western lands; this method is still used today
    Ordinance of 1785
    30s
  • Q8
    1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and served as a model for other new territories and as a plan for admitting new states to the Union
    Northwest Ordinance
    30s
  • Q9
    an uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution
    Shay's Rebellion
    30s
  • Q10
    meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of new Constitution
    Constitutional Convention
    30s
  • Q11
    agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation
    Great Compromise
    30s
  • Q12
    agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress
    Three-Fifths Compromise
    30s
  • Q13
    a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
    Electoral College
    30s
  • Q14
    supporters of the constitution
    Federalists
    30s
  • Q15
    a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states
    Federalism
    30s

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