lesson 1
What year was the Articles of Confederation ratified?
What is the year of 1781.
Who of the 55 men ran and made the rules for the constitutional convention on May 25, 1787?
Who is George Washington.
What are the three parts of the constitution?
What are the preamble, articles, and amendments.
What are the five main principles of the federal government?
What is popular sovereignty, limited government and the rule of law, separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism.
What is the job of the judicial branch?
What is the branch of government that interprets laws.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
what is a plan for surveying western lands.
What was the Virginia Plan?
What is a government with a president, courts, and a congress with two houses based on population.
What do the first three articles state?
What is the powers and responsibilities of each branch of government.
What does republic mean?
Today the word republic can mean any representative government headed by a president or other elected leader.
What is the Electoral College
what is a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
The Bill of Rights is a document that states what?
What is a document protecting peoples natural rights.
What is the New Jersey plan?
what is a one-house congress, each state would have one vote and a less powerful committee named by Congress would carry out laws.
How many states are needed to ratify a proposed amendment?
What is three-fourths of the states must ratify it.
What does limited government mean?
The government only has the power that the people allow it to have.
What is a confederation?
what is a group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose.
what territory was the first to become a state in January 1776?
What is New Hampshire.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
What is the compromise saying how slaves are counted into the population count.
Out of the 27 amendments how many make up the bill of rights?
What are the names of the three different types of powers.
What is enumerated powers, reserved powers, and concurrent powers.
What is the job of the legislative branch
what is the lawmaking branch of government.
What battle was the reason for calling for a stronger national government?
What is Shay's Rebellion.
What is the great compromise?
What is Congress would have two houses—a Senate and a House of Representatives with one based on population and the other with equal representation.
What is the fourth statement in the preamble?
What is To “provide for the common [defense]”—to be ready militarily to protect the country and its citizens from attack
What is the purpose of checks and balances
What is a way for each branch of government to check, or limit, the power of the other two branches in a number of ways.
executive branch has the job to?
What is the branch of government that carries out laws.