8th Grade Social Studies: Creating a New Nation Test (Part 2)

To bring a formal charge against a federal or state public official with the intent of removing from office.

• impeach

• bicameral

• veto

Government in which people elect officials to represent them.

• Republic

• Dictatorship

• Federalism

A period of time when business slows down and unemployment increases.

• Economic Depression

• Economic Boom

• Economic Recession

Two houses of the legislative branch.

• bicameral

• unilateral

• bipartisan

An agreement acceptable to both sides.

• Compromise

• Dispute

• Disparaging

The idea that no one branch could hold too much authority.

• Checks & Balances

• Hierarchy of Importance

• Order of Branches

Made up of a group of people who represent the voters of each state.

• Electoral College

• Congress

• House of Representatives

called the "Father of the Constitution."

• James Madison

• John Hancock

• Abraham Lincoln

The French lawyer who came up with the idea of separation of powers.

• Montesquieu

• Napoleon

• James Earl Jones

The states had to get this number of votes in order to approve the Constitution.

• 9/13

• 13/13

• 1/13