8th Grade Social Studies Mid-Term Review

What are similarities between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution?

What issue did the Great Compromise resolve at the Constitutional Convention on 1787?

Whom did Washington turn for help in solving the challenges facing the new nation, establishing a precedent for future presidents?

Following the Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court case, which branch of government received expanded power to decide whether laws followed the Constitution?

Which was a problem of the central government under the Articles of Confederation?

At the Constitutional Convention, the Three-Fifths Compromise resolved the issue between what two groups?

What effects did the Louisiana Purchase have on the United States?

Under the idea of popular sovereignty, the decision whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was made by whom?

The Framers created a Constitution that called for the people to directly elect who?

The first words of the United States Constitution, "We the people, " express the idea of popular sovereignty which means what?