Articles of Confederation
Who is Congress?
Who are the Federalists?
Believed in checks and balances and separation of powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
This part of the Declaration of Independence explains the reasons for declaring independence.
What is the preamble?
This was an event in which the colonists protested the British tax on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Articles of Confederation gave most power to ______ government.
What is state?
Opposed the new US Constitution.
Who are the Antifederalists?
The three natural rights John Locke believed people are born with.
What are life, liberty, and property?
The King put unfair taxes on the colonists, sent the army to police colonists during peacetime, and cut off trade with other nations. These are examples of __________ found in the Declaration of Independence.
What are grievances?
This plan supported representation in Congress based on state population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Number of votes each state had under the Articles of Confederation.
Needed for the Antifederalists to pass the new US Constitution.
What is a bill of rights?
Believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Who is Voltaire?
The two different names for America's form of government.
What are republic and representative democracy?
The name of the system created to elect a president of the United States.
What is the electoral college?
Singular branch of government in the Articles of Confederation.
What is legislative?
This was the goal of the Federalist Papers.
What is gain support for the new US Constitution?
Believed in equal rights for people regardless of wealth and standing.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Absolute monarchy, dictatorship, and theocracy are this type of government.
What is authoritarian?
This compromise led to a portion of the enslaved population being counted in the state's population for representation purposes.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
In order to change the Articles of Confederation, ___/13 states had to agree.
What is 13?
Supporters of this group include rural farmers and ordinary people.
Who are the Antifederalists?
Thomas Jefferson drew upon this Enlightenment thinker's concepts as he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
In this form of government, every citizen has a direct vote on laws.
What is direct democracy?
The Great Compromise gave every state ___ representatives in the Senate.
What is two?