Articles of Confederation
What was the first national government of the United States?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
In what year did delegates meet to create a new Constitution?
What is 1787?
What group supported ratification of the Constitution?
Who are the Federalists?
Who was the first president of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
What do we call examples established by Washington that future presidents followed?
What is Precedents?
What important power did Congress lack under the Articles of Confederation, making it difficult to raise money?
What is the power to tax?
In what city was the Constitutional Convention held?
Where is Philadelphia?
What group feared the Constitution gave too much power to the national government?
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Who was the second president of the United States?
Who is John Adams?
What 1803 purchase from France doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What rebellion by Massachusetts farmers exposed weaknesses in the national government?
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
What compromise created a two-house Congress with different forms of representation?
What is the Great Compromise?
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
What are the Bill of Rights?
Which president completed the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What war was fought between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815?
What is the War of 1812?
What major weakness made it difficult for the national government to enforce national laws?
What is there was no strong executive branch?
What compromise counted three-fifths of the enslaved population for representation and taxation?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Why did Federalists support the new Constitution?
What is they believed a stronger national government was needed?
Which president led the United States during the War of 1812?
Who is James Madison?
What 1823 policy opposed new European colonization in the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What did Shays’ Rebellion convince many American leaders was necessary?
What is a stronger national government and a new Constitution?
What system divides power between the national government and state governments?
What is Federalism?
What important addition helped convince Anti-Federalists to support ratification?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Which president issued a policy warning European nations against further colonization in the Americas?
Who is James Monroe?
What two constitutional freedoms were threatened by the Alien and Sedition Acts?
What are freedom of speech and freedom of the press?