CHAPTER 5 TEST STUDY GUIDE HISTORY

Vocabulary Matching (2 pts.) 1. republic 2. constitution 3. executive branch 4. execute 5. dictatorship 6. amend 7. compromise 8. ceded 9. separation of powers 10. depression

Vocabulary Matching (2 pts.) 11. habeas corpus 12. legislative branch 13. currency 14. bill of rights 15. judicial branch

Multiple Choice (2 pts.) What Enlightenment writer stressed that government powers should be clearly defined and divided? Know some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? What group argued that the Constitution should protect people’s basic rights? What fraction were included in determining representation in Congress? Know some of the parts of the Great Compromise.

Multiple Choice (2 pts.) What were Ben Franklin and James Madison? What is one reason that many people called for a change to the Articles of Confederation What was one reason that the state's wrote constitutions? How did the Bill of Rights become part of the Constitution? What Enlightenment writer thought that there was a social contract between the government and the people?

Multiple Choice (2 pts.) How did a territory become a state under the Northwest Ordinance? What did the Founding Fathers learn from the example of the Roman Republic? How did Americans react to the violence of Shays’ Rebellion? What was a basic idea of the Magna Carta? What was a part of the Great Compromise? What group argued that a strong national government could be effective and protect state’s rights?

Multiple Choice (2 pts.) How many states has to ratify the Constitution before it became the law of the land? Why did small state like the New Jersey Plan? What resolved the conflict between supporters of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans? What event did Shays’ Rebellion make happen?

Legislation Matching (3 pts.) 1. Articles of Confederation 2. New Jersey Plan 3. Magna Carta 4. Northwest Ordinance 5. Great Compromise 6. English Bill of Rights 7. Land Ordinance of Three-Fifths Compromise 9. Virginia Plan 10. Constitution