Chapter Three Vocabulary Quiz

What is a detailed, written plan for government?

• confederation

• bicameral

• constitution

• ratify

What is the term for a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses?

• bicameral

• unitary

• bimiracle

• ordinance

What is a group of individuals or state governments?

• bicameral

• confederation

• ordinance

• electoral college

__________________ means to vote approval of.

• electoral college

• rule of law

• ratify

• confederation

What is a law, usually of a city or country?

• ordinance

• constitution

• confederation

• electoral college

What was 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?

• Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance

• Great Compromise

• Shays's Rebellion

What was an agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation?

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance

• Ordinance of 1785

What is a group of people name by each state legislature to select the president and vice president?

• constitution

• electoral college

• ordinance

• confederation

What were a series of essays written to defend the Constitution?

• Federalist Papers

• Anti-Federalist Papers

• Rule of Law

• Shays's Rebellion

What is the principle that law applies to everyone, even those who govern?

• rule of law

• checks and balances

• enumerated powers

• reserved powers