Constitutional Convention Jeopardy

Vocab

100

This means to approve

Ratify

200

This is document that is created to tell a country how to govern

What is a constitution?

300

This is someone who didn’t support the constitution 

What is a antifederalist?

400

This was created to protect people's rights and make Antifederalist happy.

What is the Bill of Rights?

500

This was the first constitution of the United States.

What is the Articles of Confederation?

Democracy inDanger

100

What was the event that made all 13 states realize they needed to create a new government to replace the first one?

Shays' Rebellion

200

What caused the farmers in Massachusetts to revolt?

the state government was foreclosing on their farms for nonpayment of taxes

300

Why wasn’t the national government able to respond quickly to the revolt in Massachusetts?

had to rely on the states for an army

400

As a result of the revolt in Massachusetts, what meeting was called?

The Constitutional Convention

500

These are weaknesses of the Articles of Constitution.

What are government couldn't collect money or regulate trade?

The Men at theMeeting

100

Who acted as the president of the meeting?

George Washington

200

Who wrote the Virginia Plan and was the "secretary" of the constitution? 

James Madison

300

These people supported the constitution 

Federalist

400

This person was in charge of creating the financial system for the U.S. and thus had to compromise on where the U.S. capital would be?

Alexander Hamilton

500

Roger Sherman was responsible for creating this compromise which made two houses of Congress

The Great Compromise

Creating the Constitution

100

This is the number of branches Congress had under the Articles of Confederation.

1

200

In the new constitution, this was the upper house of Congress.

What is the Senate?

300

This is what determines how many representatives get in the house of representatives. 

What is the state’s population?

400

This is what changes to the constitution are called.

What are amendments?

500

This is the number of senators each state gets.

What is two?

Compromises/Laws

100

This compromise counted an enslaved person as 3/5ths of a person towards a state's population.

What is the 3/5ths Compromise?

200

This compromise combined the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan which created the Houses of Congress (the Senate and the House).

What is the Great Compromise?

300

This was passed to give basic rights for settlers, banned slavery and set up ways for territory to became states in the northwest.

What is the Northwest Ordinance? 

400

This divided up public land into townships. They would sell the land for no less than $1 an acre

What is the Land Ordinance of 1785? 

500

These states were gained from the Northwest Ordinance. 

What are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin?