Enlightenment
Tabula Rasa
What is the idea that the mind is a 'blank slate'?
The first, very weak 'Constitution' of the US, made government power limited and had decentralized power
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The two plans that the Great Compromise merged to create the Legislative branch
What are the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
Define Ratification
What is 'to pass or approve'?
How many electoral votes does a candidate need to win a majority?
What is 270?
Despotism
What is different governmental bodies exercising different powers (rule of law)?
Where Shay's Rebellion occurred
What is Massachusetts?
Define bicameral
What is having two chambers or houses?
The number of Federalist papers
What is 85?
The deadline for a winner of the electoral voting to be announced
What is January 20th?
Define Enlightenment
What is a cultural, intellectual, social, and scientific movement where thinkers re-examined aspects of society, like government and justice to religion and women's rights?
The amount of states required to agree to pass a law
What is 9 out of 13 states?
The Three-Fifths Compromise
What was the decision that "all non-free persons [slaves] would count as 3/5 of a person" when accounting for population?
George Mason and Patrick Henry were the leaders of this group of men
Who were the Anti-federalists?
True or false: the winner of the popular vote is guaranteed to win the presidency
False
The difference between Hobbs' and Locke's ideals
What is Hobbes' belief that state of nature = state of war (men are inherently evil) and Locke's belief that state of nature is inherently peaceful (men are inherently good/neutral)?
What the government could not do
What is collect taxes, control foreign or domestic trade, force the states to do anything, and amend the AoC without agreement of all 13 states?
The date of the Constitutional Convention
What is May 25, 1787?
The year when the 10-amendment Bill of Rights was ratified
What happened in 1791?
True or false: each state has a different number of electoral vote as we do congressional representatives
False; we have the same number of votes as we do congressional representatives
Jean-Jaques Rousseau's beliefs
What are the ideas that men need balance and reason, and that women are different as they learn obedience and skills for providing care?
When the Articles of Confederation was approved and who approved them
What is the Continental Congress on 1781?
The document at the top of the chain of authority of the Supremacy Clause
What is the Constitution?
1. God wasn't mentioned
2. The Anti-federalists didn't agree with the ratification process
3. The power of state government would be limited
4. The power of the central government increased
5. There was no Bill of Rights
What are two of the five concerns for ratifying the government?
1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, or 2016
Name two of the five years in which the candidate that won the popular vote lost the presidency.