Articles of Confederation
This was the kind of alliance of states that the Articles of Confederation created.
What was a loose alliance?
These people opposed the Constitution because they believed it left the national government too strong, the states too weak, and it did not spell out the rights of the people.
Who were the anti-Federalists?
This compromise allowed states to count enslaved people as part of their total population, giving southern states more votes.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The Constitution improved the balance of power between these two types of government.
What are national and state governments?
These 10 changes to the Constitution were created to protect Americans' natural rights
What is the Bill of Rights?
This weakness led to the collapse of the Articles of Confederation.
What was an inability to solve national problems?
These people supported the Constitution because they favored a strong national government.
Who were the Federalists?
This compromise settled the dispute about representation in Congress.
What was the Great Compromise?
The delegates to the Constitutional Convention decided to write this after realizing that the Articles of Confederation were beyond revision.
What is the Constitution?
This English tradition greatly influenced the way the framers wrote the Constitution.
What was an outline of natural rights listed in a bill of rights?
This rebellion made it clear that the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
This plan for representation said that every state should get the same number of representatives.
What was the New Jersey plan?
To win support for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Federalists agreed to adding this important list to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This economic situation affected farmers badly after the Revolutionary War as demand for farm products decreased and prices increased.
What is a depression?
This French thinker insisted on the separation of powers.
Who was Montesquieu?
This former general was elected to lead the Constitutional Convention.
Who was George Washington?
These types of states supported the Virginia Plan because they wanted a state's population to decide how many representatives they would have.
What are large states?
This type of legislature was ultimately created in the U.S. Constitution so that small states' and large states' interests could both be represented.
What is a bicameral -- or two house -- legislature?
This document creates a government.
What is a constitution?
These three natural rights kick off the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
The national government had no power to do this under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the power to tax?
This was the last state (of the original 13 colonies) to ratify the Constitution.
What was Rhode Island?
This word refers to the difficult way that the Constitution allows changes to be made to it.
What is amend or amendment?
These three branches of government are an important example of the separation of powers.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government?
This English document -- written under King John -- marked the first time that limits to the king's powers were written down.
What is the Magna Carta?