Articles of Confederation
The AOC wanted to make it so the U.S. would never have a what?
King or Monarchy
The Constitutional Convention was started in what year?
1787
in 1776 Slavery was legal in which U.S. States
All of them
How many branches of government are within the United States' current government?
3
An improvement to a document is known as what
Amendment
This was the type of government the early Americans wanted.
Republic
What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?
To ratify the Articles of Confederation.
The blank compromise was the act of counting every enslaved person as 3/5ths a white person
3/5ths compromise
Congress is made up of what two houses
The House and Senate
What were the 2 main political parties called during this time?
Federalist and Anti- federalist
The Land Act of this year made it easier for people to buy land in the Northwest Territory.
1800
Some key ideas were taken from this English bill that was made in 1215
Magna Carta
Manumission is known as this
Freeing of individual enslaved persons
The president is one of the main people in the executive branch of government, who is the other.
Vice president
What is sharing power between the state and federal government known as
Federalism
Having 2 separate law-making chambers in a government is known as what.
Bicaneral
What made George Washington change his mind about the importance of the constitutional convention?
Shay's Rebellion
After the freedom from slavery, African Americans had to set up this in their societies that were separate from what white people had.
Churchs, Schools, Aid groups.
What is the group of people called who elected the 15th president of the United States
Electoral College
Who is the English philosopher who said all people should have natural rights
John Locke
This city was the second United States capital and was the capital from December 20th, 1776- February 27th, 1777
Baltimore, Maryland
Of the 55 people who were at the convention more than half of them worked as what
Lawyers
In the year 1804 how many states had ended slavery and what were they?
5, New York and Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
What does the third amendment do
protects citizens from having soldiers quartered in their homes.
Who is Mr. King's favorite president?
your mom