This led parliament to tax the colonies to help pay off Britain's war debt.
What was French and Indian War?
100
The New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan about representation helped create this compromise?
What was the Great Compromise?
100
This was created by the Great Compromise and had two "houses"
What is the United States Congress?
100
This was the compromise that decided how slave would be counted as part of the general population for representation and taxation.
What was the "Three-fifths Compromise"?
100
This word means "officially approved".
What is "ratified"?
200
Committees of Correspondence, Non-Importation Agreements, Boston Tea Party, and the First Continental Congress are all examples of?
What are colonial attempts to end the British policy of salutary neglect?
200
The Great Compromise created this.
What is the United States (U.S.) Congress?
200
This "house" of Congress has equal representation for each state.
What is the United States Senate?
200
States from this section of our country argued that slaves were not citizens and should not be counted for representation but should be counted for taxation.
What was the "North"?
200
This word means "a legal change or addition".
What is "Amendment"?
300
"All men are created equal", "unalienable Rights", and "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive..." were all justifications for this.
What was declaring independence?
300
This document guarantees freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and the protection from unreasonable search and seizure among rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
In this "house" of Congress, the number of seats (representatives) that a state has is determined by the population of the state.
What is the House of Representatives?
300
States from this section of our country wanted slaves to be counted as part of the general population for representation but not for taxation in order to have a greater number of seats in the House of Representatives.
What was the "South"?
300
This answered the worries about the protection of individual freedoms during the constitutional debates and became the first ten (10) amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This Document was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
400
This person nominates new Supreme Court Justices when they need to be replaced.
Who is the President of the United States?
400
The Great Compromise preserved this.
What is the power of individual states?
400
Based on the compromise, this was how many slaves "out of 5" would be counted toward representation in the legislature.
What was "three"?
400
Innocent until proven guilty, probable cause, due process, and no cruel and unusual punishment are examples of what?
What are criminal rights in the Bill of Rights?
500
he was the General that led the American Colonists to victory in the American Revolution and was the first President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
500
This branch of the United States government approves presidential appointments.
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
500
The Great Compromise is also know as this.
What is the "Connecticut Compromise"?
500
As part of the "Three-fifths Compromise" the convention delegates agreed that Congress could not do this until 1808.
What was "ban the slave trade"?
500
Freedom of speech, right to bear arms (own guns), Innocent until proven guilty, probable cause, due process, speedy and public trial, and no cruel or unusual punishment are examples of this.