What is the first line of the Constitution? (in the preamble)
What is We the People
100
This made the articles of Confederation a weak document.
What is the states had more power than the central government.
100
The Constitutional Convention resulted in the creation of this document.
What was the United States Constitution?
100
This word means to accept.
What is ratify?
100
Those who were against the Constitution
Who were anti-federalists?
200
The Constitution describes the separation of government into 3 branches. Name 2 of them
What is Legislative, Judicial, Executive,
200
The Articles of Confederation served as America's first...
What is Constitution or governing document
200
During the Second Continental Congress this document was created.
Bonus: Who wrote the document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson wrote it.
200
Under this document the chief problem with the new government was that it was weak. Individual States had more power and every state had a different set of currency.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
200
Under the Articles of Confederation they had more power than the central government.
What is the individual states
300
5 men were very important to the writing of this document. Name 1.
Who are George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine.
300
A weak national government was purposefully created
What is avoiding a government of control like Great Britain?
300
The Constitutional Convention meet in this city.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
300
He was president of the SECOND Continental Congress and was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Hancock?
300
13 states
What is how many states were there when America became a nation?
400
Give the name of the 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights.
400
What replaced the Articles of Confederation?
What is the Constitution of the United States of America
400
The right to bear firearms, freedom of religion, speech, and the press, protects people from having their property searched or taken, protects peoples rights to not house soldiers during times of peace and guarantees people the right to a trial by jury and a lawyer.
What are rights of American citizens protected by the Bill of Rights?
400
Ten rights of the American people added to the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
Name two of the original 13 states
Mass, New Hampshire, NY, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
500
What document did the Constitution replace?
What is the Articles of Confederation
500
The purpose of the Articles of Confederation
What is to govern the new United States of America
500
The delegates elected this person to preside over the Congressional Convention?
Who was George Washington?
500
He was elected the first president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
500
A government in which citizens have power to make political decisions