U.S. History Unit Vocab Quiz

What does the term 'sectionalism' mean?

• A law allowing the seizure and return of escaped slaves

• Strong concern for local interests

• A political practice in which people vote on whether to allow slavery

• A characteristic of or relating to a city

What was the purpose of the Compromise of 1850?

• To admit California into the Union as a free state

• To divide the Southwest territories and allow popular sovereignty

• To establish fines on federal officials who refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law

• To ban slavery in Washington, D.C.

What did the Fugitive Slave Law establish?

• Fines on federal officials who refused to enforce the law

• Fines on individuals who helped people escape enslavement

• All of the above

• Banning fugitives from slavery from testifying on their own behalf in court

What is the legislative branch of the government called?

• Federal Judiciary

• Chief Executive

• Congress

• Impeach

Who is the chief executive?

• The President

• The chief justice of the supreme court

• The speaker of the house of representative

• The senate majority leader

What is a delegated power?

• a power that the Constitution does

  not delegate to Congress or deny to

  the states and is therefore reserved

  to the states or the people

• the power of the Supreme Court to review an action of the legislative or executive branch and declare it unconstitutional

• a system in which judges cannot be removed or have their salaries reduced for making unpopular decisions

• a power that the Constitution

  delegates, or grants, to Congress

  and therefore to the national

  government

What was the Constitutional Convention?

• The creation of the first football "constitution" or rule book in 1910

• A convention held in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft the Constitution of the United States

• A convention meant to create the first United Nations constitution in New York in 1945

• 
  The first constitutional convention ever in human history, in Boston in 1800

What does ratification mean?

• 
  the approval of a plan of government or of a constitutional amendment

• The act of rejecting or nullifying something
• The act of delaying or postponing something
• The act of secretly manipulating or altering something

What were the Articles of Confederation

• The Articles of Confederation were a series of trade agreements between the United States and other countries.
• The Articles of Confederation were a document that established the monarchy in the United States.
• The Articles of Confederation were a set of laws that governed the relationship between the federal government and the states.
• The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States which created a framework for a loose confederation of states.

What was the Great Compromise?

• The Great Compromise was a treaty signed between the United States and Great Britain after the revolutionary war.

• The Great Compromise was a military strategy used during the American Revolution that cost many lives but won the war.

• the compromise reached during the Constitutional Convention on representation in a bicameral Congress with the house based on population and the senate being equal.

• The Great Compromise was a trade agreement between the northern and southern states, this compromise helped prevent the civil war.