Constitution
The Land Ordiance of 1785 divided the land into pieces. What size is the size of a "section" of land.
640 Acres
1 Mile square
Which branch of government includes the House of Representatives
Executive Branch
What is the term for the right to vote?
Suffrage
What is the term given to explain the purpose of a government divided into three branches?
Separation of Powers
What amendment guarantees the "right to bear arms".
2nd Amendment
What amendment guarantees the right to trial by jury in many civil cases?
7th amendment
In the fourth amendment it protects Americans from illegal search and seizure. This protects people from what?
It protects citizens from the US spying on them.
What is the name given to the revolt of the western farmers in early Massachusets against the court system which was taking their property away?
Shays's Rebellion
What is the principle that each branch of government is given powers to check the other powers of the other two and limit them.
Checks and Balances
A series of essays written to support their ideas of strong central powers.
Federalist Papers
The document that governed the U.S after the Revolutionary war?
The Articles of Confederation
What are two things that were found to be lacking in the articles of Confederation?
1 No power to tax
2. No power to enforce laws
Which amendment would allow Mormons to hold a meeting in the park.
This case would effect the first amendment
What is the First section of the Constitution?
Preamble
Why were Anti-Federalist afraid of the adopting the US Constitution?
Because they were afraid individual rights would be taken away.
What was proposed by Roger Sherman that offered a two-house Congress to satisfy both small and big states
Great Compromise
In the Land Ordinance of 1785, Each Township was divided into how many Sections?
36
Was the 3/5 Compromise was primarily concerning?
How much a vote of a black person was worth
What are three things of the reasons mentioned in the Preamble for grounds to write the Constitution?
Form a more perfect union
Establish Justice
Insure domestic tranquility
Provide for the common defense
Promote the general welfare
What amendment secures a citizens right to jury duty?
6th amendment
What wood species is the middle layer of the USS Constitution made of?
Live Oak
A tax placed on imported items from other countries.
A Tarriff
What body votes for the president?
The electoral college
To reject a decision made by the law making body. This can be done by a president or governor.
Veto
In the land ordinance of 1785, what was set as the minimum price pre acre for the purchase of the land from the government
$1