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Review Sheet Chapter 8

Review

Chapter 8:  Confederation to Constitution               Name _________________________

REMEMBER TO READ THE CHAPTER, PAY ATTENTION TO ALL CLASSROOM INFORMATION, ASK QUESTIONS, STUDY AND WORK HARD.  CLASSROOM NOTES ARE ALSO IMPORTANT. 

THE QUESTIONS BELOW WILL BE VERY HELPFUL, BUT  IT IS NOT EVERYTHING THAT WILL BE ON THE TEST. 

1.___________________________________________Law that established a plan for dividing the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains

2. ___________________________________________Law that described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed

3. __________________________What year did Michigan become a state?

4._____________________________________Natonal legislative body formed by the Articles of Confederation

5._____________________________________________ Plan for national government passed in 1781  ( 200 years before Mr. Benz graduated from high school).

6.  ________________________________Lands northwest of the Appalachians, covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785

7.  _________________________Uprising of Massachusetts farmers who wanted debt relief

8.  _____________________________Father of the Constitutional Convention

9. ________________________________What city was the Constitution written in?

10.  ________________________________What year was the Constitution ratified?

11.__________________________________Who was the President of the Constitutional Convention

12.  _________________________________People who helped create the U. S. constitution were know as..

13.  _______________________________________A proposal for a two house legislature with representation according to each state’s population or wealth

14.  ___________________________________Proposal for a legislature in which each state would have one vote

14. ____________________________________Agreement to establish a two – house (bicameral) national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house

15.  ________________________________How many Senators do we have today?

16.  __________________________________How many representatives do we have in the House (House of Representatives) today?

17.  __________________________________Agreement that three-fifths of a state’s slave population would be counted for representation and taxation

18.  ________________________________________________Government department that enforces laws

19.  _________________________________________________Government department that interprets laws

20.  _______________________________________________Government department that makes laws

21.  ____________________________The ability of each branch of government to exercise checks, or controls over the other branches

22.  ____________________________People who opposed ratification of the Constitution

23.  _____________________________System of government in which power is shared between the national (or federal) government and the states

24._________________________________________________List three powers that national government has

25.  ________________________________________________List three powers the State Government has

26. _____________________________________People who supported ratification of the Constitution

27._______________________________________Ratification essays published in New York news papers

28.  ________________________________________The first ten amendments to the U. S. constitution