Key Words
This is the structure of the government when a single, strong federal power controls the nation.
What is centralized?
These are the changes that the Bill of Rights included to protect people from the abuses of a powerful government.
What are the first ten amendments?
This is the main person in charge of the Executive Branch of the nation.
Who is the president?
These are the main motivations that Europeans had for colonizing the Americas.
What are guns, gold, and glory?
This group demanded that ten amendments be added to the Constitution before they agreed to sign it.
This was the structure of power under of the Articles of Confederation and means that governmental power is spread out to many different places.
What is decentralized?
The right to legal counsel (a lawyer) and the right to remain silent are given to people in this situation.
What are the rights given to a person accused of committing a crime?
This branch is in charge of writing and passing laws. They also have the ability to declare war.
What is the Legislative Branch?
These are all British policies that led to colonist's rebellion and the Revolutionary War
What are the Sugar Act, Intolerable Acts, and Proclamation of 1763?
These are the many essays that were written and distributed to the first states to convince people to ratify the new Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This word means a Legislative Branch made up of two groups.
What is bicameral?
This famous amendment protects the right to remain silent during arrest, the right to due process, protection against double jeopardy, and the right of Eminent Domain.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This is the group of 12 that makes up the Judicial Branch. They declare laws constitutional or unconstitutional and settle disputes.
Who is the Supreme Court?
What is the Revolutionary War?
This group argued for a strong, centralized government where national power was greater than the states' power.
Who are the Federalists?
These are powers given to the federal government, specifically the Legislative Branch.
What are enumerated powers?
This amendment gives citizens the freedom to practice any religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press so that news can be reported unbiasedly.
What is the First Amendment?
Along with the House of Representatives, this is a house of Congress.
What is the Senate?
This was the first government created by colonists that was signed as a contract among settlers.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This group believed that centralized power would lead to tyranny and corruption that could turn the government against its own people.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
These are powers that the state and federal government share.
What are concurrent powers?
This amendment grants the right to a speedy and public trail, along with an impartial (unbiased) jury.
What is the 6th Amendment?
The Articles of Confederation did not have these two branches. Federalists included them into the structure of the government to ensure that corruption and tyranny cannot happen easily.
What are the Executive and Judicial branches?
This was the final battle in the Revolutionary War and resulted in the British surrendering to the Americans.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This group felt that the Constitution offered enough protection for the people of the United States, and that the Bill of Rights was unnecessary.