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A lawmaking body with a single house of elected representatives.
What is a unicameral legislature?
100
A plan for governing western lands.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
100
To win support for the Constitution, Federalists promised to add one of these......
What is a Bill of Rights?
100
A government in which people elect officials to represent them.
What is a Republic?
100
Official approval
What is ratification?
200
They chose the congressional delegates under the Articles of Confederation.
What are state legislatures?
200
Southern states received more representation in Congress as a result of this compromise.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
200
State and Federal Governments share power under this type of government system.
What is Federalism?
200
The FIRST Constitution of the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
300
Number of votes each state had in Congress under the Articles of Confederation.
What is one?
300
Federalists wanted a strong one of these.....
What is central government?
300
A group of people chosen from each state to indirectly elect the President.
What is the Electoral College?
300
An uprising of farmers to protest high taxes.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
Power comes from the people in ____________ __________.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This plan at the Constitutional Convention was most like the Articles of Confederation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
A loose confederation of strong state governments.
What is the Articles of Confederation, or Confederate Government?
400
This future president wrote the Virginia Plan.
Who was James Madison?
400
He led the Continental Congress that produced the original constitution.
Who was John Dickinson?
400
Series of essays defending the Constitution.
What are the Federalist?
500
The reason the delegates to the Constitutional Convention originally met.
What is to REVISE the Articles of Confederation?
500
An executive committee would lead the Executive Branch under this proposed plan.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
500
Land north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
What is the Northwest Territory?
500
Different branches of government have different responsibilities.
What is separation of powers?
500
Someone who was opposed to the Constitution.
What is an Anti-Federalist?
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