Vocabulary Matching
True or False
Branches of Governement
Early Government
Enter Category
100
Having two separate lawmaking chambers
What is Bicameral
100
After the American Revolution, most states allowed only white men who were at least 21 years old to vote.
What is True
100
Branch of government that carries out the nations laws
What is Executive Branch
100
Which law helped stop the spread of slavery to the West?
What is the Northwest Ordinance
100
A farmer uprising in Massachuesetts
What is Shays's Rebellion
200
The freeing of individual enslaved persons
What is manumission
200
Slavery was a major source of labor in the North.
What is False
200
The three branches of government
What are executive, judicial, legislative
200
The Articles of Confederation had to be approved by how many states?
What is 13
200
John Locke believed in the natural rights of people. He was a philosopher from what country?
What is English or England
300
A person who wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler
What is John Locke
300
The delegates at the Constitutional Convention included Native Americans, African Americans, and women.
What is False
300
Decides whether a law is constitutional
What is the judicial branch
300
Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?
Who is George Washington
300
The Vice President is in office for how many years?
What is 4 (same term as president)
400
To fall in value
What is depreciate
400
The first three articles of the Constitution describe the structure of the federal government.
What is True
400
Makes laws and collects taxes
What is the legislative branch
400
Under the federal system of government, what or who is the final authority?
What is the Constitution
400
Who holds the power to create money? State or national government?
What is National Government
500
A person who proposed the Great Compromise
What is Roger Sherman
500
Anti- Federalist supported the Constitution
What is False
500
Each branch has the powers to limit another branch
What is the system of checks and balances
500
The movement that influenced the Constitution's architects
What is Enlightenment
500
Sharing power between the federal and state governments
What is federalism
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