The English documents that heavily influenced our early settlers.
What are the Magna Carta, Petition of Right, and the English Bill of Rights?
100
A joining of several groups or states for a common purpose.
What is a confederation?
100
Formal approval.
What is ratification?
100
The group, led by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, that argued in favor of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
100
The group that opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
200
The type of colonies that were under the direct control of the Crown. Trouble brewed within these colonies, with Massachusetts being the prime example.
What are Royal Colonies?
200
The annual congress of delegates from each colony that was proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
200
The document that governed our nation prior to the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
The formal name for the 55 individuals who drafted the Constitution.
Who are the Framers?
200
The series of 85 essays written by the Federalists in favor of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
300
The basic principle of American government which states that the government is restricted in what it may do, and that each individual has rights that the government cannot take away.
What is limited government?
300
The Congress of colonial delegates that agreed to boycott English goods and draft the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
What is the First Continental Congress?
300
The central government had to ask the states for troops and funds. It also lacked an executive branch and required 13 of 13 states to amend the Articles.
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
300
The plan, proposed by a southern state at the Constitutional Convention, that called for a bicameral Congress, an executive and judicial branch chosen by the legislative branch, and representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
The plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention that called for a unicameral legislature, an executive branch elected by the people, and equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
A system of government in which public policies are made by officials selected by the government.
What is representative government?
400
The Congress of colonial delegates that managed the war effort and drafted the Declaration of Independence.
What is second Continental Congress?
400
Revolt of indebted farmers in Massachusetts that revealed the weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
The national government was too strong, and it didn't provide for a Bill of Rights.
What are the Anti-Federalist complaints about the Constitution?
400
The compromise at the Constitutional Convention that allowed 3/5th's of each state's slave population to be counted toward representation in the House.
What is the 3/5th's Compromise?
500
The principle of government that states that the government must act fairly, and in accord with established rules in all that it does.
What is due process?
500
The principle of American government that states that the government exists only with the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
The principle of government that separates the government into the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
500
Also known as the "Great Compromise," it called for a bicameral legislature, with the Senate based on equal representation, and the House of Representatives based on population.
What is the Connecticut Plan?
500
The compromises at the Constitutional Convention that agreed that Congress would not tax State exports, and could not act on the slave trade for 20 years.