1. Chapter 7 A More Perfect Union
Test Review
Chapter 7
A More Perfect Union

2. Round 1 Match each term with its description
A single-house legislature
Law that created the Northwest Territory.
Law that made lands available for public sale.
Head of the Department of Finance
First constitution of the United States of America
Law that made buying lands affordable through financing.
A two-house legislature
A government in which citizens rule through elected officials
Bicameral
Republic
Articles of Confederation
Unicameral
Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Harrison Land Act of 1800
Robert Morris

3. Round 2 Match each term with its description
Depression
Daniel Shays
Manumission
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
James Wilson
Gouverneur Morris
New York lawyer who called for the Constitutional Convention.
Massachusetts farmer who led a rebellion
Pennsylvania delegate who wrote final draft of Constitution; known as the “Penman of the Constitution”
Virginia farmer known as the “Father of the Constitution”
Freeing of all enslaved people
Slow economy
Pennsylvania framer

4. Round 3 Match each term with its description
Proposed the Virginia Plan which included three branches of government
Proposed the Great Compromise
Proposed the New Jersey Plan which included one vote per state
Agreement that allotted for a proportional vote and an equal vote among states
Proposed a Bill of Rights
Agreement that allowed slaves to vote, but not equally
Edmund Randolph
William Paterson
Roger Sherman
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
George Mason

5. Round 4 Match each term with its description
Someone in favor of a strong central government
French writer who believed in the separation of powers
Document that provided for the citizens
Someone not in favor of a strong central government
English writer who believed in natural rights
Document that limited the power of the king
Educated men who created the Constitution
English Bill of Rights
English Magna Carta
Framers
John Locke
Montesquieu
Federalist
Anti-Federalist

6. Round 5 Match each term with its description
Supreme Court
Book written by James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton
Office of the President
A collective of elected officials that determines the President
Law added to the Constitution
Bicameral Congress: Senate and House of Representatives
Idea that each branch of government can correct the other
“Federalist Papers”
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Electoral College
Checks and Balances
Amendment

7. Round 6 Compare and Contrast
Using the list below, determine whether part of the Articles of Confederation (A) or the U.S. Constitution (C)
One branch
States maintain power
Congress cannot impose taxes
Congress can impose taxes
Congress can declare war
Idea of federalism
Three branches
Congress can control trade
Congress cannot control trade
Congress cannot maintain money
Congress can maintain money

8. Round 7 Checks and Balances
Determine whether the ability to take action belongs to the Legislative Branch (L), Executive Branch (E), or the Judicial Branch (J)
Power to approve constitutionality of laws
Power to overturn veto with 2/3 vote
Power to approve Supreme Court justices
Power to appoint Supreme Court justices
Power of the purse
Power to approve constitutionality of executive orders
Power to veto laws
Power to impeach President and Supreme Court justices