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The plan for the government of the new United States during the Revolutionary War and a few years after.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A famous political document from England that took some power from the king and gave people more rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
Introduces the main idea of the Constitution and explains why the Constitution was written.
What is the preamble?
A group of people who favored a stronger national government.
What are the Federalists?
The central government of a country made up of smaller states.
What is the Federal Government?
The cruel and unfair use of power.
What is tyranny?
A list of basic human principles that was guaranteed for all people.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The part of the Constitution that explains how the government works.
What are the Articles?
A group of people who opposed a stronger national government.
What are Anti-Federalists?
A set of rights or freedoms that belong to all people and cannot be taken away by a government.
What are natural rights?
The government created by the Articles of Confederation in 1781.
What is the Confederation Congress?
A period where many European thinkers wrote about the importance of facts and science.
What is the Enlightenment?
The first 10 are known as the Bill of Rights.
What are Amendments?
A series of essays in favor of the Constitution.
What are the Federalists Papers?
Division of responsibilities between multiple parts or branches, of a government.
What is the separation of powers?
The first written government of the new United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The document that replaced the Articles of Confederation and organized the federal government of the United States. The laws in this document supercede all others.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
It is made up of local, state, and federal courts.
What is the judicial branch?
A series of newspaper articles that opposed the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Anti-Federalists Papers?
Freedoms that belong to all people simply because they are human.
What are individual rights?
An uprising that affected the debates about the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
The men who helped create the United States.
Who are the Founding Fathers?
It is also known as the Congress.
What is the legislative branch?
Gives people the freedom of speech, religion, and freedom of the press.
What is the First Amendment?
Dedication to improving one's community, especially through participation in government.
What is civic virtue?