Important People
Constitution
Amendments
Vocabulary
Numbers
100
"Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
100
The supporters of the new constitution.
What are Federalists?
100
Right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
100
The study of the duties and rights of citizens.
What is civics?
100
Current number of amendments.
What is 27?
200
He had the idea of separation of powers in government.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
200
The reason the Anti-Federalists did not want the new constitution.
What is a lack of a Bill of Rights?
200
Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment.
What is the Twenty-first Amendment?
200
The principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
What is the rule of law?
200
Number of colonies during the American Revolution War.
What is 13?
300
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
A constitution plan that would have strongly favored the larger states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
Granted women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This system, in which the people govern themselves.
What is direct democracy?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Number of U.S. territories.
What is 16?
400
He was the king who taxed the American colonists too much.
Who is King George III?
400
The Plan that mixed the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
Abolishes slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
A group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose.
What is confederation?
400
Number of senators in the Congress.
What is 100?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
He wrote Common Sense. (It's a shame nobody has it anymore.)
Who is Thomas Paine?
500
The decision on counting the population of states that have slaves.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
500
The 5 parts to the 1st Amendment.
What is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition?
500
A form of government in which power is divided between the national government and the states.
What is federalism?
500
Number of delegates at the Constitutional Convention?
What is 55?