A leader of Virginia who created the Virginia Plan. Never had a strong voice, but later became president of the United States. Known as the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
100
The idea that government should be based on the consent of the people.
What is Republicanism?
100
What series of 85 essays defended the Constitution.
What is The Federalist?
100
Which branch interprets law?
What is the Judicial Branch?
100
True or False: There was no executive branch to enforce the laws of Congress in the Articles of Confederation?
True.
200
Which political leader from Connecticut proposed the Great Compromise?
Who is Roger Sherman?
200
What is a government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives?
What is a Republic?
200
Two levels of government that shared fundamental powers due to what document?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
A system that prevented one branch from dominating the other.
What is the system of checks and balances?
200
Which compromise called for 3/5 of a state's slaves to be counted as population?
What is the Three/Fifths Compromise?
300
Which group of people favored the new constitution's balance of power between the state and national government?
Who are the Federalists?
300
What is another name for an alliance?
What is a confederation?
300
Which document established a plan for surveying the land west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River?
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
300
Which set of amendments to the constitution were demanded by anti-federalists before they would support the Constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Which city-state was the first to be democratic?
What is Athens?
400
Which group of people opposed having a strong central government and were against the constitution?
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
400
What divided power between the national and state governments?
What is federalism?
400
Divided land into territories and set requirements for admission as states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
400
Nine states needed to officially approve the Constitution before it could complete the process of the of what?
What is ratification?
400
True or False: Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, a territory had to have 5,000 voting residents before they could write a temporary constitution or elect their own government?
True.
500
Who was an angry veteran from the Revolutionary War that started a farmer's protest which caused panic and dismay throughout the nation?
Who is Daniel Shay?
500
What is the group of electors chosen by the states who cast ballots for the candidates?
What is the electoral college?
500
Could Congress regulate taxation under the Articles of Confederation?
What is no?
500
The first amendment to the Constitution gives citizens the right to what? Name three.
What is the right to freedom of religion, speech, the press, and political activity.
500
True or False: The Constitution allowed Congress to interfere with the slave trade.
False. Congress had to wait 20 years before it could interfere with the slave trade.