Chapter 7 History Review Terms

Vocabulary review flashcards covering key terms, acts, plans, and compromises from the Chapter 7 history review lecture.

Articles of Confederation

The first central authority of The United States established a confederacy.

Northwest of Ordinance of 1787

An establishment that guaranteed freedom of religion, the right to trial by jury, and public education.

Amendments

Additions to document.

Virgin Plan

Plan proposed by the larger states at the constitutional convention that called for a new congress to have congressional representation according to state population.

New Jersey Plan

Plan proposed by the smaller states at the constitutional convention that called for equal state representation in the new congress.

Connecticut Compromise

Plan proposed at the constitutional convention that called for a bicameral legislator.

Senate

House of congress composed of two senators from each state that provides for equal representation.

House of Representatives

House of congress composed of representatives from each state based on population.

Three-Fifths Compromise

Agreement between the northern and southern states at the constitutional convention, which established that three fifths of a state's slave population would be counted for both representation and taxation.

Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise

Agreement between the northern and southern states at the constitutional convention that granted congress the power to regulate commerce with the limits that it could not levy export tariffs and could not regulate the slave trade.

Federalists

Those who approved of the new constitution.

Antifederalists

Americans who oppose the new constitution.

Bill of Rights

First 10 amendments to the constitution, which were adapted in 1971, securing many Americans' approval of the constitution.

First Amendment

Constitutional amendment that guarantees individual rights and freedoms, including the freedom of religion.

Federal Republic

System of government in which people govern indirectly.

Federalist

A series of essays supporting the constitution published by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and etcetera.

Constitutional Republic

System of government in which the actions of both the government and the people are limited by a constitution.

Legislative

Branch of government that makes laws.

Executive

Branch of government in which the people govern indirectly.

Judicial Branches

Branch of government that interprets laws according to the constitution.

Inauguration

The formal ceremony in which a president is officially placed in office.

Cabinet

Name given to the president's advisers.

Judiciary Act of 1789

One of the first acts of congress which set up a federal court system as outlined in the constitution.

Patent

A formal document which gives an inventor exclusive rights to his invention for seventeen years.

The Metallic Standard

System in which all banknotes must be backed by gold and silver.

Bank of the United States

National bank created by congress in 1997 to regulate private banks and make sure that they backed their banknotes with gold and silver.

Mint Act of 1792

Established a federal mint and provided for the coinage of gold, silver, or copper.

Loose Construction

Loose interpretation.

Strict Construction

Strict interpretation.

Democratic Republicans

Those who opposed Hamilton's programs and rallied around Jefferson.

Proclamation of Neutrality

Foreign policy president George Washington issued toward all warning nations in Europe.

Department of the Navy

Built to build up American sea power.

Alien and Sedition Acts

Four laws passed by the federalist controlled US congress and signed by president John Adams during an undeclared naval war with France.

State Rights

The first monument movement provoked by the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Resolutions that insisted that the constitution was a compact or a contract between the individual states and the federal government and that the states could judge for themselves what acts violated that contract.