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WorksheetsSocial Studies Week 5 Vocabulary
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is an organization or alliance of several groups joined together?
a)
Federal
b)
Confederation
c)
Unicameral
d)
Bicameral
2.
What is a written document that describes the structure and powers of a national or state government?
a)
Confederation
b)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
c)
Checks and Balances
d)
Constitution
3.
What is having a single legislative or lawmaking body called?
a)
Unicameral
b)
Bicameral
c)
Ratify
d)
Federal
4.
What is having a two-house legislature, such as the Senate and House of Representatives in the U.S. Congress, called?
a)
Unicameral
b)
Bicameral
c)
Radify
d)
Federal
5.
What is the branch of government that makes the laws?
a)
Legislative Branch
b)
Executive Branch
c)
Judicial Branch
d)
Federal
6.
What is the branch of government that executes, or carries out the laws?
a)
Legislative Branch
b)
Executive Branch
c)
Judicial Branch
d)
Federal
7.
What is the branch of government that interprets the laws and runs the court system?
a)
Legislative Branch
b)
Executive Branch
c)
Judicial Branch
d)
Federal
8.
What is a system of government in which a nation’s powers are divided between a central government and the governments of individual states?
a)
Legislative Branch
b)
Executive Branch
c)
Judicial Branch
d)
Federal
9.
What was the process for creating new states in the Northwest Territory and outlawing slavery in the new states?
a)
Federal
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
d)
Checks and Balances
10.
What does it mean to agree to something?
a)
Ratify
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Federal
d)
Checks and Balances
11.
What is the belief that the political power of a nation or state comes from the consent of the people?
a)
Ratify
b)
Popular Sovereignty
c)
Federal
d)
Checks and Balances
12.
What is a system that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful?
a)
Legislative Branch
b)
Executive Branch
c)
Judicial Branch
d)
Checks and Balances
13.
What is the legislative branch of the U.S. government that makes laws?
a)
Congress
b)
Senate
c)
House of Representatives
d)
Legislative Branch
14.
What is one of the parts of the US Congress which has two representatives from each state?
a)
Congress
b)
Senate
c)
House of Representatives
d)
Legislative Branch
15.
What is one of the parts of the US Congress where the number of representatives for each state is has based on the state’s population?
a)
Congress
b)
Senate
c)
House of Representatives
d)
Legislative Branch
16.
What are the first ten amendments to the US Constitution?
a)
Amendments
b)
The Virginia Plan
c)
The New Jersey Plan
d)
Bill of Rights
17.
Who are people who supported ratification of the Constitution?
a)
Federal
b)
Federalists
c)
Anti-Federalists
d)
Congress
18.
Who are the people who opposed ratification of the Constitution?
a)
Federal
b)
Federalists
c)
Anti-Federalists
d)
Congress
19.
What is the official change, correction, or addition to a law or the constitution?
a)
Amendment
b)
The New Jersey Plan
c)
The Virginia Plan
d)
The Great Compromise
20.
What was the proposal by the large states to have representation in the legislative branch based on population?
a)
Amendment
b)
The New Jersey Plan
c)
The Virginia Plan
d)
The Great Compromise
21.
What was the proposal by the small states to have one legislative body based on population?
a)
Amendment
b)
The Virginia Plan
c)
The New Jersey Plan
d)
The Great Compromise
22.
What was the agreement that was reached at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which set up a bicameral legislative branch where each state would have equal representation in the Senate, which had two people for every state, and in the House, which was based on population?
a)
Amendment
b)
The Virginia Plan
c)
The New Jersey Plan
d)
The Great Compromise
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