Ch. 7b PodCast Review

Ch. 7b PodCast Review
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Choose the BEST answer for each of the questions below. Work in the classroom with a partner OR at home with a sibling or parent in order to become familiar with the vocabulary that will be used on the chapter test. Choose a partner who has a different learning style than your own! You may also use the 17 Authentic Cooperative Learning (ACL) stations in HistoryClassroom.com to preview, learn, and review the material.

Constitutional Convention

Agreement that helped to solve the differences among delegates at the Constitutional Convention by establishing a Bicameral legislature.

Your answer:
New Jersey Plan
Separation of powers
Great Compromise
XYZ Affair
Plan of Government that was written to protect the interests of the smaller states.

Your answer:
Great Compromise
Virginia Plan
Itty bitty
New Jersey Plan
First Ten Amendments to the Constitution.

Your answer:
Bill of Rights
Reserved Powers
Concurrent powers
Precedents
Powers not given to the federal government but granted to the people or to the state governments.

Your answer:
Delegated Powers
Judicial Powers
Concurrent Powers
Reserved Powers
Event that occurred in October 1797 that caused relations between France and the United States to worsen.

Your answer:
Great Compromise
XYZ Affair
ABC Affair
CBS Affair
Division of political powers and duties among different branches of government.

Your answer:
Concurrent Powers
James Powers
Separation of Powers
Reserved Powers
Term used to describe actions taken by President Washington that served as models for later Presidents.

Your answer:
Washington Rules
Precedents
Concurrent Powers
XYZ Affair
Member of the first presidential cabinet and the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Your answer:
Henry Knox
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Branch of government that interprets and applies the Constitution and the laws passed by Congress.

Your answer:
Judicial Branch
Legislative Branch
Oak Branch
Executive Branch
Branch of Government that carries out laws made by Congress.

Your answer:
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
Big Stick Branch
Judicial Branch
The head of the Executive Branch of the federal government is...

Your answer:
Your Mom
The President
Congress
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
The government of the United States is based upon the idea of ...

Your answer:
NFL Parity
Constitutional Supremacy
Legislative Supremacy
Executive Supremacy
Many of the differences among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were settled by ...

Your answer:
Compromises
Edmund Randolph
Boycotts
Play-off Games
The chief dispute at the Constitutional Convention was over the way in which the states would be represented in the ...

Your answer:
Judicial Branch
Maple Branch
Executive Branch
Legislative Branch
The Congress of the United States is a ...

Your answer:
Unicameral Legislature
Single-house Legislature
Three-house Legislature
Bicameral Legislature
One of the first actions taken by the new Congress was to ...

Your answer:
Add a system of checks and balances to the Constitution.
Elect George Washington to the presidency.
Vote for a missle defense system.
Write the Bill of Rights.
The power of Congress to make laws can be checked by the President through the President's use of ...

Your answer:
Compromise.
The Elastic Clause.
The Spandex Clause.
A Veto.
The Constitution gave the power to enlarge the federal court system to ...

Your answer:
Congress.
Weight Watchers.
The Supreme Court.
The President.
The Sedition Act was passed to ...

Your answer:
Stop the Republicans from criticizing the Federalists.
Increase Immigration.
Help finance the national debt.
Stop the Democrats from raising taxes.
Alexander Hamilton called for the federal government to fund the states' Revolutionary War debts by ...

Your answer:
Forgiving all debt.
Levying taxes and placing high tariffs on imported goods.
Borrowing money from rich Americans.
Borrowing money from foreign countries.

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