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The two branches of government missing under the Articles.
What are the Legislative and Judicial branches?
The three branches of government established under the Constitution.
What are the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?
The compromise that counted 60% of the state's slaves towards its representative count.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
The location where they convened to revise the Articles of the Confederation.
What is Philadelphia?
The central government intentionally kept weak under the Articles of Confederation to prevent this from occurring.
What is tyranny?
List two of the freedoms that are protected by the Bill of Rights.
What is: freedom of SPARP/right to bear arms/freedom from unreasonable search and seizure/right to a fair trial/freedom from cruel and unusual punishments?
The compromise that established each state would have two delegates to represent them in the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise?
State the original goal that the Constitutional Convention had in mind.
What is preventing state governments from having a direct say in Congress' choice to make national laws?
Name two powers that the government under the Articles of Confederation did not have.
What is the power to tax and the power to compel individual states to abide by its decisions?
The purpose of distributing power among the three branches of government.
What is prevention of tyranny from a centralised government following their break from the UK?
The compromise that introduced the concept of a national government with three branches.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The ability of each branch to respond to the actions of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
The reason why international diplomacy was a challenge based on the structure of a confederacy underneath the Articles of Confederation.
What is each state acting as its own independent country with its agreements, trade regulations, policies, and currencies?
How the Constitution ensures that each branch of government cannot become more powerful than the others.
What is each branch has its authority but also must depend on the authority of the other branches for the government to function through the Checks and Balances system, which provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the different branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful?
Briefly describe the role of each branch of government in the Virginia Plan.
What is the legislative branch would make laws, the executive branch would provide leadership and enforce laws, and the judicial branch would explain and interpret laws?
The reason why the delegates at the Constitutional Convention decided that a new framework was necessary rather than simply revising the Articles of Confederation.
What is amending the Articles of Confederation would not be sufficient to address the needs and challenges facing the country?
What is "daddy doesn't need to know?"
Name the uprising led by farmers in Massachusetts which took a significant amount of military force to quell, thus effectively exposing the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Explain how the rights outlined in the Bill of Rights reflect self-governance principles and individual freedoms.
What is spelling out Americans’ rights to their government - guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion?
The reason why the 3/5ths Compromise was introduced.
What is Southern states wanted representation apportioned by population?
Provide an example of how checks and balances limit the power of one branch of government over the others.
What is Congress makes the laws, but the President can veto them, and the Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional?