Articles of Confederation
This was the biggest weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the lack of power to tax or enforce laws?
The Constitutional Convention took place in this city in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
Under this clause, enslaved people were partially counted for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This historian wrote History of the American Revolution, praising liberty.
Who was David Ramsay?
This ordinance created a system to survey and sell western lands.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This system divides power between state and national governments.
What is federalism?
This group opposed the Constitution because they feared central power.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This Anti-Federalist argued the Constitution gave too much central power.
Who was James Winthrop?
This 1786 uprising exposed the weakness of the Confederation government.
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
This system prevents one branch of government from overpowering the others.
What are checks and balances?
In this essay, Madison argued a large republic prevents dangerous factions.
What is Federalist No. 10?
This writer described America as a “melting pot” of Europeans.
Who was J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur?
This ordinance banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This plan favored representation based on population and supported large states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This group demanded a Bill of Rights to protect individual liberties.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
Ramsay said America was an example to the world because of this.
What is its embodiment of Enlightenment ideals of freedom?
These leaders pushed for stronger government to solve debt and trade issues.
Who were the nationalists of the 1780s?
This compromise created a bicameral Congress to settle representation disputes.
What is the Great Compromise?
The Constitution required this to happen to fugitive slaves.
What is they had to be returned to their owners?
This man’s vision excluded Native Americans and enslaved Africans.
Who was Crevecoeur?