The first plan of government of the new nation after the American Revolution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This plan called for representation in Congress to be based on a state's population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
This group favored a strong central government and passage of the constitution.
What are Federalists?
100
Majority rules
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This amendment calls for freedom of speech.
What is the first amendment?
200
Two central weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation government.
What is the inability to tax and regulate trade?
200
Opponents of the idea of large state power based on population created this plan calling for equal representation by all states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
The Federalists were more organized in presenting their point of view to the public and convinced people to support the constitution through these essays.
What are the Federalist Papers?
200
Separation of powers.
What is three branches of government?
200
This amendment ensures that people do not have to quarter soldiers in their homes. This practice was especially hated by Americans during British rule.
What is the third amendment?
300
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 provided the Americans these lands gained from Britain.
What are lands south of Canada east of the Mississippi River?
300
The agreement that the HOR would be based on population and the Senate would have equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This term describes the actions of rulers with too much power and this was the main concern of the Anti-Federalists who were not opposed to a central government but they feared too much power in the hands of a few as experienced under the British.
What is tyranny?
300
Sharing of power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
300
Americans rights to carry guns is can be controversial in light of violence in the modern age. This amendment ensures that Americans have the right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
400
This success of the Confederation government set forth a plan for land to be set aside in surveys for public education, and addition of territories to apply for statehood.
What are the Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787?
400
Debate occurred over counting slaves in southern state populations for representation and was resolved in this compromise.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
400
A leading Anti-Federalists who was a popular and respected revolutionary figure in Massachusetts.
Who is Sam Adams?
400
Clause in the constitution that asserts that the federal law is the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
400
No police officer can search my home without a search warrant. My home is my castle is protected by this amendment.
What is the fourth amendment?
500
This rebellion over taxes in Massachusetts led to the recognitition and reform in how government operated must be done!
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
The father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
500
Authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton?
500
Clause in the constitution that states that the government must do what is "necessary and proper" to complete its duty to the people and its responsibility as a government.
What is the elastic clause? or implied powers
500
Rights not stated in the constitution that are reserved for the people is protected in this amendment.