A Loose Confederation
Number of branches of government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is one (only a legislature)?
To give up
What is cede?
At the Constitutional Convention the delegates decided to do with the Articles of Confederation?
What is get rid of it and create a new government?
A government in which one person or a small group of people holds power.
What is a dictatorship?
People who support the constitution.
What are Federalists?
Type of government the U.S. had under the Articles of Confederation.
What is a Confederation?
(A loose association, or league of states. States have more authority than the federal government).
The two biggest weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is could not tax or enforce the law?
They proposed the Virginia Plan
Who were Edmund Randolph and James Madison?
A government with elected representatives who represent the people in government and govern the nation.
What is a republic?
Collection of essays that argue in favor of ratifying the Constitution.
What is The Federalist Papers?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1785 did three things to the new territories.
What is surveyed, divided, and sold the land?
This rebellion was the final straw that showed the young country that the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The Great Compromise created a bicameral legislature, consisting of a lower and upper house. What are they and how is representation determined?
Lower: House of Representatives, based on population through the Census taken every 10 years.
Upper: Senate, each state gets 2 Senators.
The Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu contributed this idea to the Constitution.
What is separation of powers?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Mason.
The only way to change the Articles of Confederation was to have ___________ consent of the states.
What is unanimous?
This was happened after the American Revolution to the national economy.
What is an economic depression? :(
The Southern states wanted slaves to be counted to go towards their population count for representation reasons. What was the compromise that came from this issue?
3/5 of the slave population will be counted (3/5 Compromise)
Free inhabitants pop + 3/5 slave pop = Total pop
Divides governmental power between federal and state governments, each level of government has their own powers and responsibilities.
What is federalism?
Number of original proposed amendments to the Constitution.
What is twelve?
The Continental paper notes (currency) were worthless because it did not have what two things to back it?
What is gold and silver?
The Northwest Territory is border by three geographic features.
What are the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River and the Ohio River?
He proposed the New Jersey Plan.
Who was William Paterson
These rights were protected under the English Bill of Rights.
What is the right of habeas corpus and the right to a trial by jury?
The two concerns over ratification of the Constitution.
What is is that it lacked a bill of rights, and the federal government will be more powerful than the states?