Chapt 7 New: Setting Up the Government

What did the Great Compromise create?

• a legislative branch with a lower house (where representation is based on population) and an upper house (where each state has the same number of representatives)

• representation based on population

• each state getting the same number of representatives

• the number of representatives chosen by the president

The Bill of Rights is made of __________.

• 10 amendments to the Constitution to protect citizens’ rights

• all of the amendments to the Constitution

• sections of the Articles of Confederation

• the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution combined

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• counted three-fifths of the adult males when determining representation

• counted three-fifths of a state's slave population when determining representation

• required bills to pass Congress by three-fifths of the vote

• required three-fifths of the representatives to be from states without slaves, and the rest of the representatives to be from states with slaves

The First Amendment to the Constitution protects _____.

• freedom of speech

• freedom of press

• freedom of religion

• all of these

What is commerce?

• trade on a large scale

• approve (a law, for example)

• a plan for representation

• system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful

What does "ratify" mean?

• to approve (a law, for example)

• trade on a large scale

• representation in Congress

• supporters of the Constitution

What were supporters of the Constitution called?

• Federalists

• Virginia Plan

• ratify

• checks and balances

What is an amendment?

• change to the Constitution

• system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful

• trade or business on a large scale

• head of the judicial branch

What are checks and balances?

• system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful

• plan for representation in Congress based on population

• trade on a large scale

• new national constitution that gave the federal government limited powers in order to protect the liberty of the people

What is the head of the judicial branch?

• United States Supreme Court

• legislative branch

• ratify

• Articles of Confederation