Amendments
What is the Bill of Rights
Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties
Individual Rights
He is know as the Great Compromiser
Who is Henry Clay
This amendment is connected to The Quartering Act
What is the Third Amendment
The idea of only doing what is best for your own region and not the entire country is know as this
What is Sectionalism
No excessive bail or Punishment
What is the 8th Amendment
Legislative Branch Makes the laws / Executive Branch enforces the laws and the Judicial Branch interprets the laws
What is Separation of Powers
The addition of this state into the Union as a slave state called for a much needed balance in Congress - Setting up the 36-30 line not allowing slavery above it.
What is the Missouri Compromise
English Document created during the era of King John protecting the rights of the people against an abusive monarch and used later as a model for the Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta
As a result of the Marbury v. Madison case, Chief Justice John Marshall established this concept that gave the Supreme Court more power in the government.
What is Judicial Review
Amendment that assures States have rights
What is the 10th Amendment
"No one is above the law"
Limited Government
Part of this compromise included California coming in as a free state and no slave trade in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This incident in western Massachusetts triggered the realization that the Articles of Confederation needed to be changed!
What is Shay's Rebellion
Popular sovereignty allowed these states to decide themselves if they wanted to join the Union as a Free or Slave State - name the Act
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
This Amendment allow the government to address rights that are not stated directly in the Constitution, (Implied rights)
What is the 9th Amendment
U.S. and Texas Sharing powers
What is Federalism
The question of how slaves would be counted with regards to population in the south to determine representation in the House of Representatives was decided by this compromise
What is the 3/5 Compromise
These 2 amendments are connected to a trial by a jury of peers
What is the 6th and 7th Amendment
The south was pleased to get this as part of this compromise, making it the law to help regain property
He is given credit for the Bill of Rights
George Mason AND James Madison
Republicanism
This compromise set our Congress up with 2 houses. The upper house would have equal representation and the lower house based off of population
This amendment is connected to the Writ of Assistance
That is the 4th Amendment (Search and seizure)
One of the only parts kept from the Articles of Confederation - It stated the requirements on how the new territories acquired by the Union could become a state.
What is the Northwest Ordinance