Chapter 5 Study Guide

After the American Revolution, most states allowed only white men who were at least 21 years old to vote.

• True

• False

Slavery was a major source of labor in the North.

• True

• False

The delegates at the Constitutional Convention included Native Americans, African Americans, and women.

• True

• False

The first three articles of the Constitution describe the structure of the federal government.

• True

• False

Anti-Federalists supported the Constitution.

• True

• False

Define manumission.

• having two separate lawmaking chambers

• to fall in value

• the freeing of individual enslaved persons

• proposed the Great Compromise

Define bicameral.

• having two separate lawmaking chambers

• to fall in value

• the freeing of individual enslaved persons

• wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler

Identify John Locke.

• proposed the Great Compromise

• wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler

• freed individual enslaved persons

• caused something to fall in value

Define depreciate.

• having two separate lawmaking chambers

• to fall in value

• the freeing of individual enslaved persons

• proposed the Great Compromise

Identify Roger Sherman.

• proposed the Great Compromise

• wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler

• freed individual enslaved persons

• caused something to fall in value