Chapter 3: The Constitution
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Lesson 1: The Country’s First Governments Pages 72-77
1.What is a confederation? ______
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2.State Constitutions based their bills of rights on what English document?
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3.What were some common features shared by the state constitutions? ______
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4. Why did most state constitutions include a bill of rights? ______
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5.Why were the Ordinances passed by the Confederation Congress important?
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6. Who was Daniel Shays? ______
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7.Where did Shays’s rebellion take place? ______
8.When did Shays’s rebellion happen?______
9.What happened at Shays’s rebellion? ______
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Lesson 2: Creating a New Constitution Pages 78-85
1.What common features did most of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention share? ______
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2.What was the original purpose of the Convention? ______
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3.What two rival plans for structuring the national government were presented at the Convention and what was the result? ______
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4.What does it mean to compromise? ______
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5.How were both the great Compromise and the Three-fifths Compromise related to population? ______
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6.Why did the delegates think the Articles of Confederation needed to be replaced?
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7.What issues did the three fifths compromise solve? ______
8.What did Federalists believe? ______
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9.Who opposed ratifying the Constitution?
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Lesson 3: The Structure of the Constitution Pages 86-91
1.Why were the representatives attending the Constitutional Convention were called Framers? ______
2. What were they framing? ______
3.What article of the Constitution establishes the Executive branch?______
4.What is the purpose of the Executive branch? ______
5.What article of the Constitution establishes the Legislative branch? ______
6.What is the purpose of the Legislative branch? ______
7.What article of the Constitution establishes the Judicial branch? ______
8.What is the purpose of the Judicial branch? ______
9.What are the ways an amendment can be proposed?
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10.What are the ways an amendment is ratified?
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11.How is it more difficult to ratify an amendment than to propose one?
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Lesson 4: Principles of the Constitution Pages 92-97
1.What are principles and why are they important? ______
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2.How is a principle different from a rule? ______
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3.What are the five principles of government expressed in the Constitution?
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4.What is an example of how government powers are separated in the United States? ______
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5.How are enumerated powers, reserved powers and concurrent powers similar to one another? ______
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6.How are enumerated powers, reserved powers and concurrent powers different from one another? ______
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7.What is the supremacy clause? ______
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8.Why is the Supremacy clause important in maintaining order in the United States?
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Chapter 3: The Constitution
Lesson 1: The Country’s First Governments Pages 72-77 (9)
Lesson 2: Creating a New Constitution Pages 78-85 (8)
Lesson 3: The Structure of the Constitution Pages 86-91 (6)
Lesson 4: Principles of the Constitution Pages 92-97 (9)
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