Lesson 1
A plan from admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The delegates
Who attended the Constitutional Convention?
The preamble, article, and amendments.
What is the three main parts of the Constitution?
The government has elected leaders.
What is a republic?
The government and its power.
What do the articles explain?
Any changes to the Articles all 13 states needed to agree.
What was the weakness of the Articles?
To fix the Articles.
What was the purpose for the Constitutional Congress?
The preamble
What is the six purposes of the government called?
Power shared by the state and federal government.
What is concurrent powers?
They state the powers and responsibilities of each branch of the government.
What do the first three articles state?
A Bill of Rights
What did most state constitutions contains?
Two house Congress, one based off population the other each state gets two representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
The legislative branch
To make sure no one branch is more powerful than the other two.
Why is checks and balances important?
When and how the Constitution can be changed.
What does article 5 describe?
Three branches and a federal government with just a legislative branch.
What did each state government have?
It decided that every five slaves would equal three free people.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The Bill of Rights
What is the first 10 amendments called?
The constitution and laws made by the national government is made by the supreme law of the land.
What is supremacy clause?
how the Constitution can be ratified.
What does article 7 describe?
The up rise of farmers that didn't want to lose their farms, because of the debt from heavy state taxes.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
They changed their opinion on the Bill of Rights when they added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
Why did the Anti-Federalists change their opinion about the Constitution?
When supreme court follows the constitution word for word.
What is a strict interpretation?
Popular sovereignty, limited government and the rule of law,separation of powers, checks and balance, and federalism.
To change anything in the articles all 13 states needed to agree.
Why was the articles weak?