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Who suggested the Great Compromise? John Adams, John Locke, Roger Sherman, James Madison
Roger Sherman
100
This is the name given to the system the government uses to ensure that no one branch can become too powerful.
Checks and balances
100
What was America's first constitution called?
Articles of Confederation
100
This is the word for a two-house legislature.
bicameral
100
What state first approved the Constitution? New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
Delaware
200
Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?
George Washington
200
This is at the very beginning of the Constitution and protects individual rights.
Bill of Rights
200
The Magna Carta and the ______________, two important British documents influenced the framer of the Constitution.
English Bill of Rights
200
This is a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases.
depression
200
This was the name given to the book of essays explaining the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
300
This person was an enlightenment thinker and writer. John Locke, John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Madison
John Locke
300
How can the president "check" Congress? overriding, voting down, vetoing, lobbying
vetoing
300
How may states had to approve the Articles of Confederation?
11 states
300
This is the final authority under the federal govenment.
Constitution
300
Farmers in what state led Shay's Rebellion in 1787?
Massachusetss
400
Who introduced the Virginia Plan? John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Edmund Randolph
Edmund Randolph
400
How many states did Congress need to pass a law?
9 states
400
The president and the vice president are elected indirectly by a special group called what?
the Electoral College
400
What is a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives?
Republic
400
Why did three delegates refuse to sign the Constitution when it was complete?
It did not have a bill of rights
500
What were Federalists?
People who supported the new Constitution
500
The division of powers between the national government and the states is what kind of system?
Federal
500
The Articles of Confederation governed the United States from _______ through 1789.
1781
500
This influenced the Constitution's architects.
Enlightenment
500
What ordinance divided lands in the West north of the Ohio River into townships six miles long and six miles wide?
The Ordinance of 1785
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