Women during the Revolution
Amendments
Articles of Confederation/Ordinances
The Early Republic
The Constitution
100
"Remember the Ladies"?
Who was Abigail Adams?
100
8th
What is less cruel and unusual punishment?
100
2 branches lacking in the Articles of Confederation?
What is the executive and judicial?
100
This 1786–87 uprising of indebted Massachusetts farmers revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
100
This principle of the Constitution divides authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is the separation of powers?
200
Name of the legal authority over the person ,property, and choices of his wife
What is coverture?
200
2 parts of the 5th amendment
Double Jeopardy
Self incrimination
Due Process
200
Number of free males in a new territory to get a government started
What is 5,000?
200
Known as the “Father of the Constitution,” this Virginian played a leading role in drafting and promoting the new framework of government.
Who is James Madison?
200
This system ensures that no branch of government becomes too powerful by giving each branch authority over the others
What are checks and balances?
300
What was the vital part of "Republican motherhood" that allowed women could impart political wisdom to their children?
What is education?
300
3rd amendment stemmed from what war?
What is the American Revolutionary War?
300
Spell the word correctly where a slave was a slave no matter where he/she went
What is extraterritoriality ?
300
Held in Philadelphia in 1787, this meeting produced a new constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
300
The ratification debates revealed this central tension in American political thought: the balance between state sovereignty and this.
What is federal power?
400
Deborah Sampson and Hannah Snail, I mean Snell
Who are women who disguised themselves as men to fight in the war?
400
The 9th and the 10th amendments gives power to what 2 groups?
What is the people and the states?
400
Signed the AOC and VERY LARGELY signed the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Hancock?
400
This compromise resolved disputes between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature with proportional and equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
This series of 85 essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, defended the Constitution during the ratification debates.
What are the Federalist Papers?
500
Part of the wedding vows that included not only what was common in a marriage but also conveying land from one owner to another
What is "To have and to hold"?
500
5 freedoms protected by the 1st amendment
What is religion,assembly,press,petition, and speech?
500
January 1st,1808
What is the year the slave trade abroad ended?
500
What were 2 slavery compromises?
What are the Three-Fifths Clause and the Fugitive Slave Clause, examples of these controversial bargains were made to secure southern support for the Constitution.
500
This plan, proposed at the Constitutional Convention, favored large states by basing representation solely on population
What was the Virginia Plan?