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Vocabulary
100
The name of the first government created in the US.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
How slave counted towards population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
100
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
100
The people's right to rule.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Any change to the Constitution.
What is and amendment?
200
There was a lack of a national or central government and the states held most of the power.
What is the main weakness of the Articles?
200
The document that the anti-federalists wanted added to the new government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Explains the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branch.
What do the first the first three articles of the Constitution do?
200
The person who came up the idea that there should be three branches with different powers.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
200
A detailed plan for a government.
What is the Constitution?
300
The event that caused the Founding Fathers to rethink the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
The meeting of state delegates in 1787 for creating the new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
300
The first 10 amendments to the Consitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
The power over the other branches to veto legislation and appoint judges.
What are the checks and balances of the executive branch?
300
To vote approval of.
What is ratifying?
400
The plan for admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
The plan that kept the one-house Congress and each state would have one vote.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
The final authority for interpreting the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
The power to collect taxes.
What is an example of concurrent powers?
400
A group of individual or state governments.
What is a confederation?
500
The plan for surveying the land and dividing them into townships.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
500
The plan that had two-houses and state population would determine how many representatives you had.
What is the Virginia Plan?
500
Three-fourths state agreement and state legislature vote.
What is the way of ratifying an amendment?
500
It states that federal law rules over any other law.
What is the Supremacy clause?
500
Powers that only state governments have.
What is reserved powers?
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