Articles of Confederation
Federalist/Anti-Federalist
Parts of Constitution
Branches of Government
Powers of Government
100
A detailed written plan for government.
What is the Constitution?
100
A supporter of the Constitution.
What is a federalists?
100
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
100
The branch of government that carries out the laws.
What is Executive Branch?
100
The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is separation of powers?
200
A group of individuals or state governments.
What is a confederation?
200
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal or national government and the states.
What is federalism?
200
One of several main parts of the Constitution.
What is an article?
200
The lawmaking branch of government.
What is Legislative Branch?
200
A system in which each branch of government is able to check or restrain the powers of the other.
What is checks and balances?
300
The first Constitution of the United States.
What is Articles of Confederation?
300
A person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
What is an Anti-Federalists?
300
Any change in the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
300
The branch of government that interprets laws.
What is Judicial Branch?
300
Powers directly granted to the national government by the Constitution.
What is enumerated powers?
400
To vote approval of.
What is ratify?
400
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College
400
To make sure all citizens are treated equally.
What is establish justice?
400
Made up of the Senate and House of Representatives.
What is Congress?
400
Powers the Constitution does not give to the federal government; power set for the states.
What is reserved powers?
500
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
A series of essays written to defend the Constitution.
What is The Federalist Papers?
500
To unite the states so they can act as a single nation, for the good of all.
What is form a more perfect Union?
500
The power of the Supreme Court to say whether any federal, state, or local law or government action goes against the constitution.
What is judicial review?
500
Powers shared by the state and federal governments.
What is concurrent powers?
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