The Articles of Confederation
This was our nation's first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This state had the largest population in the late 1700s.
What is Virginia?
This type of representation gives the same number of representatives to each state.
What is equal?
The three branches of the U.S. Government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
The Bill of Rights contains this number of amendments to the Constitution.
What is 10?
The first problem the Founders faced was the people’s fear of a strong one of these.
What is national (or federal) governement?
States with more people would get more of this.
What is power (or representatives)?
These three groups were not represented at the Constitutional Convention.
What are Native Americans, African-Americans, and women?
The branch responsible for enforcing the laws.
What is the executive branch?
The Bill of Rights protects citizens from this level of government.
What is the federal (national) government?
The Articles of Confederation gave each state this many votes in Congress.
What is one?
There was a debate about counting these people as people in the late 1700s.
What are slaves?
This created Congress with both types of representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
The branch responsible for interpreting laws and seeing if they are Constitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
This amendment says that we have the freedom of speech.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This gave people in the Northwestern lands (the area around Wisconsin) the right to organize their own governments and a path to becoming states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This region of states wanted to count slaves as people during the late 1700s.
What is the Southern region?
This type of representation is based on the population of each state.
What is proportional?
The president's power to prevent a bill from becoming a law.
What is veto?
This amendment says we have the right to own a gun.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This uprising by Massachusetts farmers finally convinced many Americans that it was time for a change.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
These were the first two states to join the original 13 in the United States.
What are Vermont and Kentucky?
This said that slaves would be counted as a fraction of a person for representation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Clause/Compromise?
The amount of votes needed in both houses of Congress to override a presidential veto.
What is 2/3?
This amendment says that we don't have to testify against ourselves in court.
What is the 5th Amendment?