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Vocabulary
European Philosophers
Articles of Confederation
Ordinances
Compromises
100
Increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money.
What is inflation?
100
In the writing of the Declaration of Independence,Thomas Jefferson used his idea that "natural rights" of life, liberty, and property existed in a state of nature and were inalienable rights.
Who is Locke?
100
A weak central government with little power over states. This is an outcome and the answer is a weakness.
What is one branch of the central government without an executive or judicial branch? Or, what is the unicameral legislative branch?
100
It was forbidden in the Northwest Territories.
What is slavery?
100
It called for a unicameral, or one house, legislature. Bonus for everyone: It also agreed that the federal government would override state laws; name the phrase.
What is the New Jersey Plan? What is the supremacy clause?
200
It is a term used to describe the general welfare. Bonus: It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, takes precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
What is the common good? What is the Supremacy Clause?
200
He described the “state of nature” where all individuals were naturally equal. However, he believed that the people should give up their natural rights of equality and freedom and give absolute power to a king. It was thought that the king wold make and enforce laws for a peaceful society making life, liberty, and property possible.
Who is Hobbes?
200
Congress could ask for money and soldiers, but the states could refuse. This is an outcome and the answer is a weakness.
What is Congress's inability to levy taxes?
200
Name the territory and ordinance that included the following areas that are now part of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
What is the Northwest Territory which is part of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
200
This plan gave each state an equal number of votes, and thus an equal voice in the federal government.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
300
A sharp decline in economic activity coupled with high unemployment.
What is a depression?
300
He believed that the social contract was not just an agreement among the people, but between them and the sovereign (preferably a king). If a sovereign violated these rights, the social contract was broken, and the people had the right to revolt.
Who is Locke?
300
Trade laws differed from state to state. This situation made trade difficult for merchants whose businesses crossed state lines. This is an outcome and the answer is a weakness.
What was the inability to regulate interstate commerce or trade between the states?
300
The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided up the Northwest Territory in this way. Bonus for everyone: The plots of land had to assigned in this particular way (three parts).
What are townships split into 36 square miles divided into 36 lots of 640 acres each? What is one plot for public education, four plots for war veterans, and the remaining plots for public auction?
300
This plan would give more power to the central government because they had more representation in Congress and another plan would give more power to the states like the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Virginia Plan? What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
It is a republic, which is part of our governmental system. Officially, our government system is a Constitutional Republic, where the power is derived through the people who elect officials to represent their interests, yet follow the principles outline in the U.S. Constitution.
What is a government system in which the power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law?
400
He said, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." He also believed that individuals should never be forced to give up their natural rights to a king, but instead, give them up to a "whole community" for the common good. He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will.
Who is Rousseau?
400
Spain closed off the lower Mississippi River to U.S. shipping, Great Britain closed many of its ports to American ships, and rebellions within the country could not be put down. This is an outcome and the answer is a weakness.
What was Congress's inability to form a national army to protect the nation from foreign and domestic threats?
400
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress sold plots of western lands through the Land Ordinance of 1785 for this reason.
What is trying to raise money to pay off its debts?
400
The organization and representation in Congress according to the Great Compromise.
What was a bicameral legislature, with two houses, one with an equal vote in the Senate and one with members determined by representation in the House?
500
It is a democracy, which is not fully practiced in the U.S. We have democratic values, but not a democratic government.
What is a system of government where the power is derived from its people?
500
He believed that in the state of nature, individuals were so fearful that they avoided violence and war, and that fear, led to laws and government. He also believed that the government's main purpose was to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual. Lastly, he believed that three separate branches of government should exist with checks and balances.
Who is Montesquieu?
500
The Congress was largely restricted in its job to pass laws and amend the Articles (two parts). These are outcomes and the answers are weaknesses.
What is nine out of thirteen states needed to ratify (pass) a law? What is all states needed to agree to amend the Articles?
500
According to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, certain conditions needed to be satisfied by a territory before statehood would be granted. Name three of the four conditions. Bonus for everyone: Name the fourth condition and should not be the abolition of something.
What is the population of a territory reaching 60,000 inhabitants, drafting a state constitution, providing public education, and providing a bill of rights to protect individual rights?
500
The northern and southern states agreed on a compromise on how to count slaves for the purpose of representation in the House of representatives and on the slave trade(two parts).
What is the 3/5 Compromise where for every five slaves, three were counted in the population of a state? What is the abolition of the slave trade or importation by 1808?