Vocabulary
Constitutional Convention
The Struggle for Ratification
The Supreme Law of the Land
State, National, or Shared?
100
A system that gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two.
What is checks and balances?
100
The leader of the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?
100
Those who supported a strong federal, or national, government
What are Federalists?
100
The term used for the beginning of the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
100
State, national, or shared: the power to declare war
What is national?
200
Another word for "two-house," as in a two-house legislature
What is bicameral?
200
The three branches the delegates decided to separate the government into
What is judicial, legislative, and executive?
200
The number of votes that were needed to ratify the constitution
What is nine?
200
The topics of the first three articles of the Constitution
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
200
State, national, or shared: The power to establish schools
What is state?
300
Another word for changes to the Constitution
What is amendments?
300
The compromise that the North and South reached as to whether or not to count slaves in the population
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
300
Those who feared that a strong central government would endanger the people's liberties
What are Anti-Federalists?
300
The original source of the idea of separation of powers
Who is Montesquieu?
300
State, national, or shared: The power to build roads
What is shared?
400
Powers shared by the federal and state governments
What are concurrent powers?
400
The compromise that was agreed upon as to whether the number of representatives would be based upon state size or equality
What is the Great Compromise?
400
The name of the essays that were written to promote the Constitution
What are the Federalist Papers?
400
Powers that the Constitution allows the states to have
What are reserved powers?
400
State, national, or shared: the power to collect taxex
What is shared?
500
The division of power between the states and the federal government
What is federalism?
500
The year that the Constitutional Convention began
What is 1787?
500
One of the authors of the Federalist Papers
Who is James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, or John Jay?
500
The name for parts added to the Constitution after it was first ratified
What are amendments?
500
State, national, or shared: The power to conduct elections
What is state?
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