Chapter 5 Review
Name:______________________________
Period:_______
1. The federal government is broken into how many branches? What are the names of the different
branches? ______________________________
a. ___________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________
2. How many total House of Representatives are there in the U.S.?___________________________
How many total Senators are there in the U.S.?________________________________________
3. How many cabinet members are there for the U.S. President?_____________________________
4. How many justices are there on the U.S. Supreme Court?________________________________
5. What are the term lengths for a House of Representative, Senator, President, and a Supreme Court
Justice?________________________________________________________________________
6. What are the minimum ages for a House of Representative, Senator, President, and a Supreme
Court Justice?___________________________________________________________________
7. What was the name of the first constitution and first government in the United States?
________________________________________________________________________
8. Name 3 things that the Articles of Confederation did not have the authority to do?
a. ___________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________
9. What is another name for a 2-house legislature? _______________________________________
10. What or who had the power under the Articles of Confederation? _________________________
11. What are the first 10 amendments called in the U.S. Constitution? ______________________
12. What rights are included in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution? 1.______________________
2.______________________________________3._____________________________________
4.______________________________________5._____________________________________
13. Who divided the western territory into self-governing districts and helped passed the Ordinance
of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance? ______________________________________________
14. What is the term used when it takes more and more to buy the same amount of good?__________
15. What is a time when economic activity is very slow and unemployment is very high and the
United States went through a period of this after the Revolutionary War? ___________________
16. Who led a group of more than 1,000 angry farmers to court houses so that judges could not go to
work to seize their farms? What did this become known as? How many people were killed as a
result of this?
a. ___________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________
17. What 2 men really wanted a strong national government during the Constitutional Convention?
Hint: One has a distant relative named Billy and the other one is on the 10 dollar bill.
__________________________________________________
18. What city was the Constitutional Convention held at? How many delegates were there? Who
was known as the “Father of the Constitution?” Who was the presiding president of the
Convention?
a. ___________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________________
d. ___________________________________________________________
19. What 2 plans of government were proposed at the Constitutional Convention? Which plan was
the one chosen to become a main part of the U.S. Constitution? a._________________________
b.__________________________________c._________________________________________
20. Who proposed the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention? Hint: Think Red Nose.
_________________________________ Who proposed the New Jersey Plan at the
Constitutional Convention? Hint: Just tap it in.__________________________________
21. Who was known as coming up with the Great Compromise?_______________________
22. What was the Compromise that came up with a way to count enslaved people in the U.S.
Constitution? ___________________________________________________________________
23. How many articles make up the U.S. Constitution? _____________________________________
24. What were supporters of the Constitution called?_______________________________________
25. What branch of government is known as the lawmaking branch?__________________________
26. What is name of the highest court in the U.S.? _________________________________________
27. Which branch of government interprets the laws of the land?_____________________________
28. What is the name given to the distinctive feature of the U.S. government that keeps one branch of
government from becoming more powerful that another? ________________________________
29. Which House in Congress is based on state population? _________________________________
30. Which Amendment to the Constitution allowed for popular elections for Senators?____________
31. What does it mean to bring formal charges against any federal official it suspects of wrongdoing
or misconduct?_____________________Which house of Congress acts as a court and tries the
accused official?_________________________________________________________________
32. What do members of Congress have to create because thousands of bills or proposed laws are
introduced every year so both houses have to have these to be able to function?_______________
33. Which branch of government carries out the laws?______________________________________
34. Besides age what are two other qualifications that a President must have before running for
office? a.____________________________________b._________________________________
35. Name 4 men that were known as federalists because they supported the Constitution?
a._______________________________________b.____________________________________
c._______________________________________d.____________________________________
36. What is another name for an introduction?____________________________________________
37. What is a government with elected representatives called?_______________________________
38. What is the main function for the judicial branch?______________________________________
39. What are the names of the 3-Tier Federal Court System? Think DAS a._____________________
b.______________________________________c._____________________________________
40. In what House of Congress does all tax and spending bills originate?_______________________
41. What is the definition of domestic tranquility?_________________________________________
42. What is the definition of federalism?_________________________________________________
43. What has the main authority and is the supreme law of the land?___________________________
44. Why has the U.S. Constitution been able to stand the test of time and work for over 200
years?_________________________________________________________________________
45. What are the first few words in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution?______________________
46. What is the definition of Popular Sovereignty?_________________________________________
47. What are people called that are from a representatives home states’ or districts that the
representatives have the responsibility of representing them in Congress?____________________
48. Who are Indiana’s two Senators? a.___________________________b._____________________
49. Who is the current Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?______________________________
50. Which Amendment to the Constitution allows people the right to bear arms?_________________