Articles of Confederation
This is when the Articles of Confederation was written.
What is during the Revolutionary War?
These are known as the Bill of Rights.
What is the first 10 amendments?
This state did not come to the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Rhode Island?
This states the power of government.
What is a constitution?
This person wrote the VA Statute of Religious Freedom.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Articles of Confederation could only do this with laws.
What is make?
The US Constitution changed representation to this?
What is a two house legislature with two votes (representatives) per state (Senate) and one house based on representation (House of Representatives)?
This is what the delegates did in order to make sure no one branch of government became too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This was our first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This person wrote the VA Constitution.
Who is George Mason?
This is how they wrote the Articles of Confederation on purpose.
What is weak?
This is how many (fraction or number) states had to approve to ratify the Constitution.
What is 2/3 or 9 states?
What is ratify?
This is the word that describes having a state system of government and a federal system of government.
What is federalism?
Name one of the three men that wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who is Hames Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton?
This was how representation in Congress was stated in the Articles of Confederation.
What is one vote (representative) per state?
This is the branch of government that has the most power. (Hint: legislative, executive and judicial)
What is none? No one branch has more power than the others.
This was how they counted enslaved people for representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This is the city where the Constitutional Convention was held.
Where is Philadelphia?
This person was elected our first president after the Constitution was ratified.
Who is George Washington?
True or False: The Articles of Confederation was amended to become our current Constitution.
What is False? It was thrown out completely.
This person wrote the US Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
This is the President of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
This branch of government enforces the laws.
What is the executive branch?
Of the first five presidents, this many were from Virginia.
What is four?