Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
There has been 27 Amendments.
How many Amendments are has there been?
100
Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
What are reserved powers?
100
A legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
What is Bicameral?
200
The first constitution of the United States.
What is is the Articles of Confederation?
200
2 houses and population depends on how many representatives.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
Legislative, executive and judicial.
What are the 3 branches of government?
200
The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
200
A group of individuals or state governments.
What is confederation?
300
1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory and served as a model for other new territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
5 slaves count as 3 people.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
300
The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict.
What is supremacy clause?
300
A vote of approval.
What is Ratified?
400
A law that set up a plan for surveying western lands.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
400
1 houses, and equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
They called The Bill of Rights.
What are the first 10 amendments called?
400
popular sovereignty,limited government and the rule of law,separation of powers,checks and balances,federalism
What are the 5 principles of government?
400
A law.
What is an ordinance?
500
Farmers in Massachusetts who don't want to loose their farms because of the debt caused by the American Revolution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
500
The first method—is by an act of Congress. A vote of two-thirds of the members of both houses of Congress is required. The second method is by two-thirds of the state legislatures.
What are the steps to make an Amendment?
500
A system of where each branch is able to check the other branches.