Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation contained this many articles.
What is 13?
Where the Constitutional Convention was held.
Where is Philadelphia?
In 1994, this agreement was implemented to remove tariff barriers between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico for fifteen years.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
What is NAFTA?
This Constitutional Convention compromise made it such that a slave equaled "3/5ths" of a person for the purpose of counting them toward representation numbers.
The 3/5ths Compromise
This is what we call the idea that no one branch of the government can have total control over everything, rather each branch has abilities that prevent another branch from taking too much power.
What is checks and balances?
The year the Articles of Confederation was ratified.
What is 1781?
The year the Constitution was ratified.
When is 1788?
In this year the housing bubble "bursts" causing an economic recession.
When is 2007?
Who is Abigail Adams?
This event exposed multiple weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, namely the inability to raise a national army.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The article that made it so all 13 of the states had to approve any change to the Articles.
What is Article 13?
This is the number of amendments we currently have to the Constitution.
What is 27?
This bill was signed into effect by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, and the program created is funded by taxes.
What is the Social Security Act?
This is the practice of southern states sending "convicted" criminals to mines, plantations, or other manual labor facilities - thus re-creating a system of slavery.
What is convict leasing?
Name one power of the Executive Branch.
What is the ability to:
veto Legislation, command armed forces, grant pardons, appoint judges / ambassadors / department heads, negotiate treaties?
The article that established each state has a reposonsibility for protecting each other from attacks.
What is Article 3?
This is what we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the name of the financier who put his own money into banks to save them during the 1907 crash.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This American Society fought for abolition and increased rights for free black people.
What is the Maryland Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery... etc.?
Name one of the influential thinkers that influenced our ideas of limited government, that combines the ideas of natural rights and social contracts.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Who is John Locke?
Article 1 of the Articles of Confederation established this:
What is the name of the country?
What is the name "The United States of America"?
This is what kind of legislature we have that was created at the Constitutional Convention.
What is a bicameral legislature?
This is the total amount of national debt the United States has as of 2024.
What is $35 trillion dollars?
This town is home to an Amazon Fulfillment Center, that was built on land that was a mass burial site, that once belonged to the Creek Nation.
Where is Bessemer, Alabama?
This person is often referred to as the "father" of the United States Constitution, and was a famous Federalist.
Who is James Madison?