Lesson 1
The first colony to organize as a state.
What is New Hampshire?
Supporters of the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
Any change in the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The principal that a ruler or a government is not all-powerful; a government that can do only what the people allow it to do.
To vote approval of.
The first constitution of the United States of America.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Those who opposed ratification of the constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
An influence or effect.
What does Impact mean?
Set up a plan for surveying western lands.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
Agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
One of several main parts of the Constitution.
What are the articles?
A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others.
What is Checks and Balances?
Powers shared by the state and federal governments.
What is concurrent powers?
A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses.
Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.
What was the Great Compromise?
Allows Congress to use powers not directly listed in the Constitution.
What is the Necessary and Proper clause?
Power shared by the national and state governments.
What is Federalism?
Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What is reserved powers?
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
A vote of two-thirds of the members of both houses of Congress or a national convention called by two-thirds of the state legislatures.
What are two ways an amendment can be proposed?
The idea that power lies with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution; another name for expressed powers.
What is enumerated powers?