Government of the People
Man chosen to be the nation's first President.
Who was George Washington?
Body of water that separted Europe and the United States.
What was that Atlantic Ocean?
First written form of American government.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Changes or additions to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
Political party to which John Adams belonged?
What was the Federalist party?
Washington's secretary of treasury.
Who was Alexander Hamilton
What was Mount Vernon?
Hamilton's excise tax that made western farmers angry.
What was the Whiskey Tax?
System under which each branch of government keeps the other two strong.
What is the system of checks and balances?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Virginian called the Father of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
First State to ratify the Constitution.
What was Delaware?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the number of states that had to agree to pass a law.
What was nine?
Power that the Central Congress lacked under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the power to tax?
What France demanded before it would talk to U.S. foreign ministers.
What was a bribe?
Leader of the farmers' revolt in Massachusetts against lawsuits that were taking their farms.
Who was Daniel Shays?
Colony that refused to agree to the new form of government unless the other colonies gave up their claims to western lands.
What was Maryland?
What was the Constitution?
Plan proposed by the small states at the Constitutional Convention.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
Treaty by which Great Britain agreed to get out of forts in the area west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was Jay's Treaty/
Three men who wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who were John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton?
State that did not send a delegate to the convention to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What was Rhode Island?
The three branches of the federal government.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?
A form of government in which the people elect representatives.
What is a republic?
Act that gave the president power to deport foreigners and threatened the freedom of speech and press.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?