Feds/Antifeds
What kind of government did the Federalists want?
What is a strong central government?
Who wrote the Virginia Plan?
Who is James Madison?
What is currency?
What is money?
What is the name of the first constitutional document of the United States?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Who is in charge of the Executive branch
Who is the president?
What kind of government did the Founding Fathers want to create?
What is a republic? or What is a democracy?
What kind of government did the Antifederalists want?
What is a strong state government/weak central government?
Which state wrote a plan in response to the Virginia Plan?
What is New Jersey?
What does cede mean?
What does to give up land claims?
Who is known as the Father of the Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
What are the two houses in the Legislative branch?
What are House of Representatives and The Senate?
Who did the Founding Fathers base themselves after?
Who wrote the Federalist Papers? (name all three)
Who are James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton?
By how many votes was the Great Compromise passed by?
What is one vote?
What is a depression?
Which state did not show up for the Constitutional Convention?
What is Rhode Island?
What do each of the branches do?
Legislative: Pass Laws
Executive: Enforce Laws
Judicial: Decides if the laws are constitutional or not.
Name three documents that influenced the Constitution?
What are the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Mayflower Compact?
How much of the Federalist papers did Madison write?
What is 1/3?
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
What is an agreement between the northern and southern states that Slaves would be counted as 3/5 of a population?
What is the Constitutional Convention?
What is the gathering of state representatives to revise the Articles of Confederation?
What year did the Constitutional Convention happen?
What is 1787?
What are checks and balances?
What are safeguards that each branch has to keep one from becoming too powerful?
What is separation of powers?
What is a principle in that the powers of government are divided into three branches?
Why did the Antifederalists oppose the Constitution?
Why is they thought that it gave too much power to the national government and too little to the states?
Who created the Great Compromise?
Who is Roger Sherman?
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
What is a law passed creating a government for the Northwest Territory?
What year was the Constitution accepted by all states?
What is 1791?
How many Basic Principles are there?
What are 7?
What is Habeas Corpus?
What is the idea that no person could be held in prison without first being charged a specific crime?
What are the New Jersey and Virginia plans?
What are:?
Virginia: Two houses in congress and both houses support the large states.
New Jersey: Two houses in congress and both houses support the small states.