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Study Guide Chapters 5&6

Explore the principles of Separation of Powers, Popular Sovereignty, and Checks and Balances, along with the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Great Compromise, and key political figures like Jefferson and Adams.

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Study Guide Chapters 5&6

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  1. Study Guide Chapters 5&6

  2. A system in which different branches of government have different responsibilities Separation of Powers

  3. A government in which people elect their officials Republic

  4. Written list of freedoms guaranteed to citizens by the government Bill of Rights

  5. The idea that government gets its power from the people. Popular Sovereignty

  6. System in which each branch of government has the power to monitor and limit the actions of the other two Checks and Balances

  7. The power to review decisions made by Congress and the President Judicial Review

  8. Placing the interests of one region above those of the nation as a whole. Sectionalism

  9. Angry young politicians who wanted to start a new war with Britain. War Hawks

  10. Act or statement that becomes a tradition . Precedent

  11. Taking sailors from their ships and forcing them into foreign service. Impressment

  12. Diplomatic controversy in 1798 in which French officials demanded bribes from American negotiators. XYZ Affair

  13. The officials in the executive branch of government. Administration

  14. One house legislature. Unicameral

  15. Two house legislature. Bicameral

  16. To revise the Articles of Confederation . What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

  17. Who wrote the Virginia Plan?

  18. William Patterson Who wrote the New Jersey Plan?

  19. The lower house (House of Representatives) was based on a state’s population Upper house, (Senate) each state had two senators. What were the terms of the Great Compromise?

  20. John Adams Who created the Alien and Sedition Acts?

  21. Allowed the arrest and deportation of immigrants who criticized the government What were the terms of acts?

  22. John Jay Who was the first Chief Justice of the United States?

  23. Louisiana Purchase What doubled the size of the United States?

  24. An unpopular excise tax on whiskey by the federal government. What was the Whiskey Rebellion in response to?

  25. Napoleon Who did Jefferson purchase the Louisiana Territory from?

  26. Win more support for the Constitution from the Southern states. Why was the capital moved to Washington, D.C.?

  27. Tecumseh Who tried to unite Native Americans into a confederacy to fight back against white settlers?

  28. Judiciary Act of 1789 What act created a Supreme Court with a Chief Justice and five associate justices?

  29. Explain the differences between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.

  30. Wealthy merchants, bankers, and lawyers. Primarily from New England. Believed in a strong central government. Led by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. Federalists

  31. Mostly planters and farms laborers. Primarily from the south and west. Distrusted a powerful central government. Led by Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams. Anti-Federalists

  32. Do you believe it was justified? Identify the causes of the War of 1812.

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