Geography
The original number of states.
What is 13?
Problems with this founding document included states having different currencies, Congress not having the ability to levy taxes, and all states (regardless of size) having one vote in Congress.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The constitution was ratified in 1787; the election of 1788 saw this man become the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and religion are contained in this amendment.
What is the first amendment?
These three branches make up the Federal Government.
What are the Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the Judicial Branch?
While New York, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania were Free States Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia were this type of state.
What are Slave States?
This 1786 rebellion started when the government of Massachusetts decided to raise taxes instead of issuing paper money to pay off its debts it had from the war; these taxes fell most heavily on farmers, particularly poor farmers in the western part of the state.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This Federalist was the political rival of Thomas Jefferson, he advocated for a strong central government and was a vocal advocate for the constitution; he was George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The fifth through eighth amendments protected these rights.
What are legal and trial rights?
The President checks this branch by signing or vetoing laws.
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
When the Constitution was ratified in 1787, this country controlled Florida.
What is Spain?
The Federal Government could not help put down Shays' Rebellion, this showed that the Articles of Confederation were _____ .
What is too weak/ineffective?
The constitution originally counted enslaved people as this fraction when counting population for representation.
What is 3/5?
The Bill of Rights ensures citizens have fundamental rights that the ______ cannot take away.
What is the government?
This branch can deem laws unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
In 1790 most Americans lived near this major body of water.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This anti-Federalist leader wrote "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." He was afraid of the US having too strong of a central government.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The balance of power between the central government and the states.
What is federalism?
This amendment protects citizens from illegal search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
The US Congress is made up of these two houses.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives?
In 1787, this established rules for making Western territories into future states — and banned slavery.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution, this Virginian was the principal author.
Who is James Madison?
This section of the constitution states "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What is the Preamble?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to assuage this political group.
Who are the anti-Federalists?
This is the one check the Legislative Branch has over the Judicial Branch.
What is approval of Federal judges?