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Topic 1: 200 Question: This plan was also known as the “large states” and lead to a congressional house based on population. Answer The Virginia Plan
Topic 1: 400 Question: This plan was also known as the “small states” plan and led to a congressional house based on equality. Answer The New Jersey Plan
Topic 1: 600 Question: What was the name of the compromise that created a bicameral (2 house) legislature. One based on equality and one based on population. Answer The Great Compromise
Topic 1: 800 Question: What was the name of the compromise that states that slaves would count as 3/5 th of a person for both representation and tax purposes? Answer 3/5 th compromise.
Topic 1: 1000 Question: What was the name of the compromise that was reached that determines how the president is elected? Answer Electoral College
Topic 2: 200 Question: What is a tax on imported and exported goods called? Answer Tariff
Topic 2: 400 Question: This is a period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment. Answer Depression
Topic 2: 600 Question: This is a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of government. Answer A constitution.
Topic 2: 800 Question: This is a written law passed by a legislative (someone who makes the laws) body. Answer Statute
Topic 2: 1000 Question: This occurs when there are increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money. Answer Inflation.
Topic 3: 200 Question: This person was known as the father of The Constitution. Answer James Madison
Topic 3: 400 Question: This was America’s 1 st constitution, it failed. Answer Articles of Confederation.
Topic 3: 600 Question: This was an English law written in 1215 that took power away from the king and made him subject to the law. The framers used this as a basis for establishing the U.S. government. Answer Magna Carta
Topic 3: 800 Question: This term means when there is trade between two or more states. Answer Interstate Commerce
Topic 3: 1000 Question: This ordinance divided new acquired western lands, in the Ohio Valley, into 36 square miles divided into 36 lots. Once an area reached 60,000 people it could apply for statehood. Answer Land Ordinance of 1785
Topic 4: 200 Question: This was held in Philadelphia in 1787 to look at failures of the Articles of Confederation and re-write it. Answer Constitution Convention.
Topic 4: 400 Question: This rebellion of Massachusetts’s farmers made the framers analyze the Articles of Confederation to determine whether it would a strong constitution. Answer
Topic 4: 600 Question: Explain one economic problem the U.S. faced as a young country. Answer Inflation Depression Interstate Commerce
Topic 4: 800 Question: Explain one problem the new American nation faced when dealing with foreign countries. Answer War Trade issues Alliances
Topic 4: 1000 Question: Who were the two groups who fought each other during the U.S. Constitution ratification process? One group supported The Constitution and the other was opposed to it. Answer Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
Topic 5: 200 Question: This a system in which no one branch of the government can gain too much power, in other words this system prevents a president from becoming a king. Answer Checks and balances
Topic 5: 400 Question: This term means the right to vote. Answer Suffrage
Topic 5: 600 Question: This is when the federal government (Washington DC) shares power with a state government. Answer Federalism
Topic 5: 800 Question: What Congressional House did the NJ Plan lead to? Answer The Senate
Topic 5: 1000 Question: What Congressional House did the Virginia Plan lead to? Answer The House of Representatives.
Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: Who is considered the primary author of the New Jersey Plan. Answer William Patterson.
This term means when there is trade between two or more states.
This is when the federal government (Washington DC) shares power with a state government.