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Origins of the Constitution
100
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
100
Taxes on imports or exports.
What is tariffs?
100
The sharing of power between a central government and the states that make up a country.
What is federalism?
100
Supporters of the Constitution.
What is federalists?
100
A document signed by King John in 1215, made the king subject to law.
What is Magna Carta?
200
A set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government.
What is a constitution?
200
Trade between two or more states.
What is interstate commerce?
200
Under this agreement only part of a state's slave population would count when determining representation.
What is Three-Fifths Compromise?
200
People who opposed the Constitution.
What is anti-federalists?
200
The first document in the colonies to establish guidelines for self-government, singed in 1620.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
300
Passed in 1689, declared the supremacy of Parliament.
What is English Bill of Rights?
300
A period of low economic activity combined with a rise of unemployment.
What is depression?
300
The idea that political authority belongs to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Official changes.
What is amendments?
300
Took even more power away from from the monarch than the Magna Carta did, in 1689.
What is English Bill of Rights?
400
Document that declared no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay for a church with tax money.
What is Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
400
The uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
Edmund Randolph proposed a new federal constitution that would give sovereignty, or supreme power, to the central government.
What is Virginia Plan?
400
10 of the proposed amendments intended to protect citizen's rights.
What is Bill of Rights?
400
John Locke supported the movement toward self-government in a document in the 1700s.
What is The Enlightment?
500
Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers in order to protect the liberties of the people.
What is Articles of Confederation?
500
It was difficult to enforce international treaties such as the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
What is trouble with Britain?
500
Held in May 1787 in Philadelphia's Independence Hall to improve the Articles of Confederation.
What is Constitutional Convention?
500
Essays supporting the Constitution were written anonymously under the name Publius.
What is Federalist Papers?
500
The document which was accepted by the Virginia Legislature in 1786, ensured the separation of church and state in Virginia.
What is Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom?
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