Vocabulary
Shays' Rebellion
Problems After the War
The Convention
After the Convention
100
a written plan of how a government works.
What is a constitution?
100
This many farmers were shot and killed during Shays' Rebellion.
What is four
100
This document gave too much power to the states, making it weak.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
These are the two houses in the Congress?
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
100
This branch of the government is where the president is.
What is the executive branch?
200
a meeting of a group of people who share a common purpose
What is a convention?
200
The government took away the farmers' land for this reason
What is they could not pay their taxes.
200
One problem with the country's money was this.
What is: it was weak.
200
These groups were not represented at the Convention.
What is Native Americans, women, African Americans and farmers?
200
This president was the first to have a cabinet.
Who is George Washington?
300
a government in which people make decisions by voting.
What is a democracy?
300
This group of people stormed the courthouses to avoid the sale of their land.
What are farmers?
300
Name at least three things the states fought over.
What is taxes, money, boundaries and land?
300
This is the name of the compromise that resulted in the formation of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
The power to print money belongs to the federal government or state government.
What is federal government?
400
a government where people vote for representatives
What is a republic?
400
Farmers were being taxed for this purpose.
What is: the government needed money to pay for the war?
400
The Continental Congress had little power and could not even require states to do pay these.
What are taxes?
400
This state was not represented at the start of the Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
400
These two men were the first to begin political parties by having different views of the future.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?
500
the group of advisers to the president is called this.
What is a cabinet?
500
Who paid for the soldiers to protect the courthouses?
What is wealthy merchants?
500
When John Adams went to England they laughed at him and asked him this:
What is "Do you represent one nation or 13 different ones?
500
This Founding Father wanted a democracy, republic, three branches and for no one person to have all the power.
Who is James Madison?
500
These are the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
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