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Vocab
100
The first government the United States had.
What is the Articles of Confederation
100
A two-house government plan, with state population deciding how many representatives each state got.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
The main parts of the constitution.
What is the articles?
100
Power that is shared between the federal and state government.
What is federalism?
100
A written plan for government.
What is the Constitution?
200
Only had one branch which was the legislative branch.
What is one weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
200
People who liked the US Constitution.
What are federalists?
200
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
200
The people's right to rule.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
300
Congress didn't have the power to tax.
What is one weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
300
People who disliked the Constitution.
What are anti-federalists?
300
The changes to the Constitution.
What are the amendments?
300
The government can only do what the people allow it to do.
What is limited government?
300
A group of individuals or a state government.
What is a confederation?
400
The rebellion that made Framers decide to remove the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
Determined how slaves would count towards population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
400
The articles that set up the three branches.
What are articles 1-3?
400
How the power of the federal government is divided between the three branches.
What is the separation of powers?
400
A law usually of a city or county.
What is an ordinance?
500
A plan for admitting states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
Two-housed government, with one house representatives based on population and the other had every state having two representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
The first ten amendments in the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
500
A legislative consisting of two parts or houses.
What is bicameral?
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