Vocabulary
A two-part national legislature, created by the Constitution.
What is bicameral?
This violent uprising in 1786 raised fears that a mob could overthrow the government.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Before the Constitution, this document was the first written plan of government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the name of the introduction of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
This branch of government is responsbile for making laws.
What is the legislative branch?
A country governed by elected officials.
What is a Republic?
This man was known as "the Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
Under the Articles of Confederation, this level of government held most of the power.
What are the States?
The constitution states that this is the minimum age requirement for being President of the United States.
What is 35 years old?
This branch of government is responsible for carrying out the laws.
What is the executive branch?
This group was established by the constitution to elect the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
This law passed by Congress in 1787 specified how western lands would be governed.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This Convention was held in Philadelphia in 1787 where delegates from the states drafted the Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
People who supported ratifying the Constitution were known as this.
What are Federalists?
This branch of government is responsible for intrepreting the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
To formally approve a plan or agreement.
What is ratify?
This was the name for the region of the U.S. bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
What is the Northwest Territory?
This compromise created a two-house government and solved debates over representation in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The constituion set up this court as the country’s highest court.
What is the supreme court?
What is a veto?
The “Age of Reason” in 18th-century Europe, focused on rational thought.
What is enlightenment?
This agreement stated that enslaved persons would be counted as 3/5ths of a person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
These papers are a series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The three branches of government as established in the Constitution.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
Congress can override the President's veto only when they have this amount of majority vote.
What is a two-thirds majority?