U3 Test (24-25)

A time in the 17th & 18th centuries were there were new ways of thinking of govt. is known as the __________.

• Enlightenment
• Industrial Revolution
• Renaissance
• Feudalism

The 3/5 Compromise settled the argument of--

• Representation in the Senate
• How slaves should be counted for representation
• How states should be represented
• Borders of states

Before the 3/5 Compromise, Southern states wanted slaves to count for--

• Taxes
• Population

What did the northern states want?

• Slaves to count for the state population
• To have more slaves.
• Slaves to not count for the state population
• For each slave to count for two votes.

In the ___each slave would count for 3/5 of a person for taxation and representation purposes.

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

Match the belief to the correct party.

Groups:

(a) Federalist

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(b) Anti-Federalist

• remove some powers from the states to give more power to the nat'l govt.

• divide powers among different branches of govt.

• strong executive branch might become a king or tyrant

• legislative branch more powerful than executive

• Bill of Rights

• keep important political powers w/ states

• single person leads executive branch

• no Bill of Rights

Which key concept is where the government's power is restricted by laws to protect individual liberties?

• Limited Government

• Checks and Balances

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Power

• Republicanism

What term means that the government divides its power at each level between three branches, so that no person or group is too powerful?

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Consent of the Governed

What is popular sovereignty?

• being popular in the world

• people voting and having a say in the governments decisions

• people voting

• the act of the 20th amendment and it’s rules.

The action or ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other branches is called...

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

• federalism

• consent of the governed