The first government of the United States, this established a weak central government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Name one of Washington's cabinet members.
Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State; Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of Treasury; Henry Knox - Secretary of Defense; and Edmund Randolph - Attorney General
These were people who favored the Constitution.
What were Federalists?
The first successful British colony.
What is Jamestown?
This compromise led to the formation of a bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
Vice President under George Washington
Who is John Adams?
These were the people who did not like the Constitution.
What were Anti-Federalists?
Two early forms of democracy in the colonies; one is document and the other is a group that meets.
What are the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The "Father of the Constitution," he was the author of the basic plan of government that the Constitution adopted.
Who was James Madison?
What is the Federal court system?
These were written to defend the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The most obvious example of colonial propaganda in the years before the revolutionary War.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This compromise gave Southern states more seats in Congress.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
What is Washington, D.C.?
This advisory group is not discussed in the Constitution, but was instituted by George Washington.
What is the cabinet?
The one major accomplishment under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These Acts pushed the colonists to the breaking point.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
George Mason of Virginia proposed this protection of individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Hamilton is best known for proposing this to George Washington.
What is the 1st National Bank?
This was proposed by the Federalists and written by James Madison in order to satisfy Anti-Federalists and therefore help ratify the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The rebellion that showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shay's Rebellion?