Amendments
What Amendment is Due Process?
What is the 5th amendment
What Amendment is freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, and protest?
What is the first Amendment
What amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures?
What is the fourth amendment
What amendment reserves any powers not given to the federal government to the states or people?
What is the tenth amendment
What Amendment protects citizens from government abuse and guarantees several rights?
What is the fifth amendment
How many amendments are in the bill of rights?
What are the ten amendments
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Economic instability and difficulty managing disputes between states
What was the great compromise?
An agreement made in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention
Why did southern states want to encounter fully?
It would give them greater political power in the federal government due to their large slave population
What event highlighted the need for stronger social central government?
Shays's Rebellion
What amendment is prohibits excessive ball, fines, and cruel and unusual punishment?
What is the eighth amendment
How does the bill of rights protect individual liberties and limit the power of government?
Fundamental rights like freedom of speech, religion, and press
What was the first attempt at national government?
The Articles of Confederation
What fraction of an enslaved person was counted for representation?
Three-fifths
What was the main purpose of the Constitutional convention?
To revise the Articles of Confederation
Who first proposed the bill of rights?
Who is James Madison
What were the strengths of the Articles of Confederation?
when was the bill of rights established?
What is 1791
Which plan proposed representation based on population?
The Virginia Plan
How many states have U.S. citizens to have the right to bear arms?
What is 44 states
Who was Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and John Adams
Why was the bill of rights rejected?
What were the causes of shays's Rebellion?
High taxes, severe debt from the Revolution War, and the state government's aggressive efforts to collect debts from farmers