After the Revolution, this group of Americans enjoyed a little bit more equality by expanding their rights to property, divorce rights, and voting in one state.
Who are women?
100
Each state in Congress had this many votes.
What is one?
100
This was the name given to the people who did not support the Constitution.
Who are Anti-federalists?
100
This plan called for two houses of the legislature, each based on population of the states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
This Constitutional Principle says that power is shared between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
200
Because men from different social classes did this during the Revolution, their idea of equality began to change.
What is fought along side one another?
200
While Congress had the ability to borrow money and pay for the army and navy, Congress did not have this power, which would allow it to gain revenue to do these things.
What is the power to tax?
200
This was the number of states required to ratify the Constitution before it would take effect.
What is nine?
200
The compromise that allowed the convention to continue where one House of Congress would be based on population and the other House would be equally represented was called this.
What is the Great Compromise?
200
The Senate was originally elected by this group of people.
Who are state legislatures?
300
Because of the expanding ideas of liberty and equality from the Revolution, many of these states began to end slavery.
What are Northern states?
300
This many states were needed to vote yes in order to change the Articles of Confederation.
What are all (13)?
300
Political leaders such as Sam Adams and John Hancock in this state were convinced to vote yes for the Constitution when the Federalists promised to add a bill of rights.
What is Massachusetts?
300
The New Jersey plan called for a single house legislature and this type of executive branch.
What is a committee?
300
This is the manner in which the President of the United States is elected.
What is the electoral college?
400
Because the people of the United States were afraid of tyranny of the masses (AKA Mob Rule), each state used this form of government to protect the minority from the majority.
What is republicanism?
400
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government only consisted of this branch of government.
What is legislative?
400
People who lived in this region in many of the states were likely to not support the Constitution and be Anti-federalists.
What is the frontier?
400
The compromise where slaves would be counted in part for representation purposes in the House of Representatives was called this.
What is 3/5 Compromise?
400
This Constitutional Principle is shown when elected officials are investigated when suspected of committing a crime.
What is limited government?
500
In order to not become a place where religious rules dominated politics, many states began to adopt this idea; for example not forcing people to pay taxes to the church any longer.
What is the separation between church and state?
500
This is the year that the Congress began acting under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 1777?
500
The 85 essays known collectively as The Federalist were written to convince people in this important state to support the Constitution.
What is New York?
500
One of the arguments against a bill of rights in the Constitution was that a bill of rights already existed here.
What are in the state constitutions?
500
This Constitutional Principle says that power from the government comes from the people.