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Your TopicCompromises Vocab Potpourri Challenges Times they are
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Bonus Question: 5000 pts
Topic 1: 200• Question:• This plan was also known as the “large states”
and lead to a congressional house based on population.
• Answer• The Virginia Plan
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Topic 1: 400• Question:• This plan was also known as the “small states”
plan and led to a congressional house based on equality.
• Answer• The New Jersey Plan
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Topic 1: 600• Question:• What was the name of the compromise that
created a bicameral (2 house) legislature. One based on equality and one based on population.
• Answer• The Great Compromise
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Topic 1: 800• Question:• What was the name of the compromise that
states that slaves would count as 3/5th of a person for both representation and tax purposes?
• Answer• 3/5th compromise.
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Topic 1: 1000• Question:• What was the name of the compromise that
was reached that determines how the president is elected?
• Answer• Electoral College
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Topic 2: 400• Question:• This is a period of low economic activity
combined with a rise in unemployment.• Answer• Depression
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Topic 2: 600• Question:• This is a set of basic principles and laws that
states the powers and duties of government. • Answer• A constitution.
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Topic 2: 800• Question:• This is a written law passed by a legislative
(someone who makes the laws) body.• Answer• Statute
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Topic 2: 1000• Question:• This occurs when there are increased prices
for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money.
• Answer• Inflation.
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Topic 3: 200• Question:• This person was known as the father of The
Constitution. • Answer• James Madison
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Topic 3: 400• Question:• This was America’s 1st constitution, it failed. • Answer• Articles of Confederation.
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Topic 3: 600• Question:• This was an English law written in 1215 that
took power away from the king and made him subject to the law. The framers used this as a basis for establishing the U.S. government.
• Answer• Magna Carta
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Topic 3: 800• Question:• This term means when there is trade between
two or more states.• Answer• Interstate Commerce
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Topic 3: 1000• Question:• This ordinance divided new acquired western
lands, in the Ohio Valley, into 36 square miles divided into 36 lots. Once an area reached 60,000 people it could apply for statehood.
• Answer• Land Ordinance of 1785
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Topic 4: 200• Question:• This was held in Philadelphia in 1787 to look at
failures of the Articles of Confederation and re-write it.
• Answer• Constitution Convention.
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Topic 4: 400
• Question:• This rebellion of Massachusetts’s farmers
made the framers analyze the Articles of Confederation to determine whether it would a strong constitution.
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Topic 4: 600• Question:• Explain one economic problem the U.S. faced
as a young country. • Answer• Inflation• Depression • Interstate Commerce
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Topic 4: 800• Question:• Explain one problem the new American nation
faced when dealing with foreign countries. • Answer• War• Trade issues• Alliances
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Topic 4: 1000• Question:• Who were the two groups who fought each
other during the U.S. Constitution ratification process? One group supported The Constitution and the other was opposed to it.
• Answer• Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
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Topic 5: 200• Question:• This a system in which no one branch of the
government can gain too much power, in other words this system prevents a president from becoming a king.
• Answer• Checks and balances
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Topic 5: 600• Question:• This is when the federal government
(Washington DC) shares power with a state government.
• Answer• Federalism
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Topic 5: 800• Question:• What Congressional House did the NJ Plan
lead to? • Answer• The Senate
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Topic 5: 1000• Question:• What Congressional House did the Virginia
Plan lead to?• Answer• The House of Representatives.
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Bonus Question: 5000 pts.
• Question:• Who is considered the primary author of the
New Jersey Plan. • Answer• William Patterson.
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