ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
This was the first constitution of the United States, approved in 1781.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Delegates met in this city in 1787 to create a new plan of government.
What is Philadelphia?
This agreement created a Senate and a House of Representatives
What is the Great Compromise?
This is the highest law in the United States and is known as the Supreme Law of the Land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This group supported ratifying the Constitution and believed a stronger central government was needed
Who were the Federalists?
Under this system, most government power belonged to the individual states.
What is a confederal system?
This was the 1787 meeting where delegates debated and created the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Under the Great Compromise, every state receives this many senators.
What is two?
This is the introduction to the Constitution that explains its goals and purposes.
What is the Preamble?
This group worried that a strong national government could abuse its power and wanted states to keep more control.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
Congress could not do this, so the national government struggled to raise money for defense and other needs.
What is collect taxes?
This plan called for two houses of Congress, with representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
In the House of Representatives, the number of representatives from each state is based on this.
What is population?
This article establishes Congress, the branch that makes laws.
What is Article I?
These three Federalist leaders wrote the 85 essays known as the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
Because Congress could not do this, each state made its own trade laws, causing confusion and conflict.
What is regulate trade?
This plan called for one house of Congress, with one vote for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This compromise counted five enslaved people as three people when determining representation and certain tax matters.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This clause says the Constitution, federal laws, and treaties are the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This Anti-Federalist leader said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Who is Patrick Henry?
This Massachusetts uprising by farmers in 1786–1787 showed that the national government could not respond effectively to unrest.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This word describes a legislature with two houses, like the Congress created by the Great Compromise.
What is bicameral?
This system uses electors from each state to formally choose the president.
What is the Electoral College?
This term means official approval; Article VII said approval by 9 of the 13 states would put the Constitution into effect.
What is ratification?
This group wanted a Bill of Rights to protect individual rights and freedoms before agreeing to support the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists
Changing the Articles required this level of agreement, making changes extremely difficult.
What is unanimous consent of all 13 states?
This word describes a legislature with one house, as proposed by the New Jersey Plan.
What is unicameral?
A presidential candidate needs this many electoral votes to win, according to the PowerPoint.
What is 270?
This term means a change or addition to the Constitution; there are 27 of them.
What is an amendment?
This is the name for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?