Northwest
Articles of Confederation
Shays' Rebellion
Constitution
Bill of Rights
100
This many people were needed to become a new state.
What is 60,000?
100
Our nation's first government was set up under this document.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This group rebelled with Daniel Shays'.
What are farmers?
100
The New Jersey wanted this many representatives from each state in the Legislative Branch.
What is 2?
100
This amendment gives us the freedom of religion.
What is the First Amendment?
200
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 outlawed this in the Northwest Territories.
What is slavery?
200
This word describes the Articles of Confederation.
What is weak?
200
Massachusetts farmers were already suffering from the country's economic depression and then the Massachusetts state government made things worse by doing this.
What is raising taxes?
200
This stated thought the number of representatives in the Legislative Branch should be based on population.
What is Virginia?
200
The right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment/
300
This law made education free in the Northwest Territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
300
Under the Articles of Confederation we did not have an army to force Great Britain to leave these U.S. owned locations.
What are forts?
300
Daniel Shays' and his followers figured if they stopped people from entering these buildings, nobody could take their farms.
What are courthouses?
300
Roger Sherman created this by combining the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
The right to trial by jury.
What is the 7th Amendment?
400
This law divided land in the Northwest Territories into townships that were 36 square miles.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
400
Spain would not let us use the Mississippi River and we could not make them for this reason.
What is we did not have an army/
400
The document that made it difficult to stop Daniel Shays' and impossible to stop Great Britain and Spain from being bullies.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
Splitting power between the state and federal government.
What is federalism?
400
No unlawful search and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
500
According the the Land Ordinance of 1785, four square miles per township were set aside for these people.
What are Revolutionary War veterans?
500
This was stronger than the federal government under the Articles of Confederation.
What are states?
500
The Articles of Confederation were weak on purpose to stop this.
What is tyranny?
500
The end result of the argument between Northern states and Southern states in the Constitutional Convention.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
500
This is why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
What is to clarify the rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?
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