This document set up the nation's first government
What is Articles of Confederation?
100
What Bostonian strongly opposed Daniel Shays’ rebellion?
Who is Samuel Adams?
100
The 5 freedoms under the 1st Amendment.
What is speech, religion, press, assembly, petition?
100
Considered the primary success of the Articles
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
100
A tariff is a tax on…
a. income
b. exported goods
c. imported goods
What is C?
200
The 1st 10 Amendments
What is Bill of Rights?
200
Also known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
200
This amendment guarantees suspected criminals fair treatment.
What is the 4th Amendment?
200
The Articles could be amended with this number of states who consented.
What is 13?
200
The number of the 13 states needed
to ratify the Constitution for it to
become law
What is 9?
300
Alexander Hamilton & James Madison were members of this party
What are the Federalists?
300
Mentor to James Madison
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Term used to describe the purpose or thesis of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
300
The amount the nation was in debt.
What is $25-28 million?
300
The Great Compromise was an
agreement about how to…
a. ratify the Constitution
b. count slaves in determining population
c. determine a state’s representation in Congress
d. divide powers between the states and the
central government
What is C?
400
Term that describes the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people
What is republicanism?
400
He suggested the "Great Compromise".
Who is Roger Sherman?
400
The year the Constitution was ratified.
What is 1787?
400
The reason why the Framers feared a strong national government.
What is because they just fought for independence from Great Britain, a country with a strong central government?
400
Shays’ Rebellion was a protest by farmers
who faced problems from
a. an oversupply of paper currency
b. debts they owed to creditors
c. debts owed to the them by Congress
d. debts owed to them by the State of Massachusetts
What is B?
500
Law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachians
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
500
The 3 authors of the Federalist Papers?
Who is Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
500
Term used to describe how the Constitution divided power among the national and state governments
What is federalism?
500
First President under the Articles of Confederation.