Important Terms
Which Amendment
Ratification
Important Names
Which Branch
100
To reject an act of Congress.
What is a veto?
100
The Amendment that gives us freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
100
The number of states required to approve the new Constitution.
What is 9?
100
He was our nation's first president.
Who is George Washington?
100
The branch of government that makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
200
The name given to people who were opposed to the new Constitution.
What is Antifederalists?
200
The amendment that protects you from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
200
The first state to ratify the new Constitution.
What is Delaware?
200
He was known as "the father of the Constitution" because he was the main writer of the new Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
200
The branch of government that enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
300
The name given to the people who supported the new Constitution.
What is Federalists?
300
The Amendment that protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures without a valid search warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment?
300
The last state to ratify the constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
300
He came up with the idea to combine the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan which came to be called the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
300
The branch of government that judges the laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
The system in which each branch has a limit or check on the other branches to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
400
The Amendment that gives you the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
400
The state that would not ratify unless there would be a bill of rights attached to the Constitution.
What is Massachusetts?
400
The Plan that would determine states representation based on that states population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
The branch of government that is made up of Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
500
A government principle in which government is divided among 3 different branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
500
The Amendment that protects you from self incrimination, from double jeopardy, and grants you due process under the law.
What is the 5th Amendment?
500
The state that was the 9th to ratify.
What is New Hampshire?
500
The plan that would determine a states representatives based on an equal number per state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
500
The branch of government that is made up of the President, the Vice President, and the Cabinet.
What is the Executive Branch?
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