Meeting
We Got Trouble
How strong are ye?
Yer fulla beans!
Potpourri
100
An agreement in which each side gives up some demands.
What is a compromise?
100
This nation still held forts in the Northwest Territory illegally.
Who are the British?
100
Defined as: official approval.
What is ratification?
100
Author of the NJ Plan, William Paterson tried to protect smaller states by calling for a Congress with this feature.
What is a one-house Congress?
100
President of the Constitutional Convention.
Who was George Washington?
200
Rules under which a government will operate.
What is a constitution?
200
This Mass. farmer caused quite a ruckus, leading to calls for revising the Articles of Confederation.
Who was Daniel Shays?
200
This branch of govt. carries out the laws of the land.
What is executive branch?
200
NW territory townships sold all land except one square, reserved for this.
What is a school?
200
Townships in the NW territory were this many square miles.
What is 36?
300
North and South agreed on this slavery conflict regarding taxation and representation.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
300
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio all lands included in this territory.
What is Northwest territory?
300
A govt. branch including circuit and district courts.
What is the judicial branch?
300
His detailed notes give us insight into the creation of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
300
"We, the People," leads us to believe the Constitution gets its authority from this.
Who are the citizens?
400
This state's plan led the fight for smaller states to be equal with larger states in the Constitutional Convention.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This Mass. group was finally able to stop Shay's Rebellion.
What is the state militia?
400
Guaranteed individual freedoms at the state level, then at the national level.
What is bill of rights?
400
He asked delegates at the Constitutional Convention to approve the document they had just created.
Who was Ben Franklin?
400
Newspaper publishers would like the First Amendment to the Constitution, as it protected this.
What is freedom of the press?
500
This process was how the Bill of Rights was included in the US Constitution.
What is the amendment process?
500
This body in the Articles of Confederation was not able to collect tax and regulate trade.
What is Congress?
500
Some state constitutions included what the original US Constitution did not openly guarantee.
What is a bill of rights?
500
Fat Cat Federalist.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
500
Created a compromise at the Convention pleasing large and small states, but it was not really "written in stone".
Who was Roger Sherman?
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