Loose Confederation
Geography
Constitutional Convention
Ideas Behind Constitution
Bill of Rights
100
In order to form a government, most states wrote
What is a constitution
100
Condition of Earth's atmosphere at anygiven time and place
What is weather
100
Its goal was to revise the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitutional Convention
100
The persons who laid the groundwork for us becoming the United States are known as
What is Founding Fathers
100
These are lists of freedoms that the government promises to protect
What is the Bill of Rights
200
This is considered to be the first American constitution written in 1777
What is the Articles of Confederation
200
Half of the Earth is called a
What is hemisphere
200
This is where the Constitutional Convention took place
What is Philadelphia
200
A government in which citizens rule themselves through elected representatives
What is a Republic
200
first ten amendments
What is the Bill of rights
300
One of the major problems with the Articles of Confederation was it had ____________ powers
What is limited
300
Area that has little or no moisture or vegetation
What is Desert
300
The two rival plans about how government should work were called
What is the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan
300
The establishment of three branches of government and the idea to keep no branch from becoming more powerful than another
What is separation of powers
300
Which amendment is freedom of speech
What is the first amendment
400
A system set up for settling land issues in the Northwest Territory
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785
400
land area that is surrounded by water
What is an island
400
Sherman's plan for a two house legislature (House of Representatives and a Senate) became known as
What is the Great Compromise
400
A government in which one person or a small group holds all power
What is a dictatorship
400
These people favored a strong federal or national government
What is Federalists
500
1,000's of farmers attacked courthouses and stopped the states from seizing farmland
What is Shay's Rebellion
500
large area of natural grassland with few or no trees or hills
What is a prairie
500
The debate over how slaves would be counted toward representation was known as
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
500
Many of the principles of the Constitution come from the ideas of Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu. What era did these men come from
What is the Enlightenment
500
Series of essays written by Madison, Hamilton and Jay that explained and supported the constitution
What is the Federalist Papers
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