Important Writings
This president's Farewell address is read in the Senate every year on his birthday.
Who was George Washington?
In this compromise, an enslaved person was counted as a fraction of a person when calculating a state's population.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
The Articles of Confederation didn't have two of the branches of government that we currently have. Name one of them.
What is either the executive branch or the judicial branch?
This is what the executive branch of government generally does.
What is carry out laws or set direction for the country?
This person wrote much of the Constitution and is known as the Father of the Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
This part of the constitution was added to protect the rights of individual citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The government under the Articles of Confederation only had a legislative branch of government--a Congress. This is what a legislative branch of government does.
They make laws.
What is interpret or enforce the laws?
This part of the Constitution begins "We the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility...."
What is the Preamble?
This compromise took elements of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan to create two houses of Congress.
What is the Connecticut Compromise (or the Great Compromise)?
The Articles of Confederation was replaced by this document.
What is the Constitution?
Three rights specifically guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. (answers will vary)
What are (any 3):
Speech, Religion, Press, ability to assemble, right to bear arms, freedom from cruel or unusual punishment, etc?
Several states would not sign the Constitution unless this was added.
What is the Bill of Rights?
In this house of Congress, each state gets two votes.
What is the Senate?
These are two weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation (answers will vary).
What are (any two)___?
No judicial branch (no way to enforce laws); No way to tax or pay its bills; No chief executive/president; the government was too weak; any changes had to be unanimous; it was hard to get anything done
These are two precedents set by George Washington when he was president (answers will vary).
What are being called Mr. President, nominated Supreme Court justices, appointed and met with a Cabinet?
This series of essays encouraged people to support the new Constitution.
What were the Federalist Papers?
In this house of congress each state gets a different number of votes depending on its population.
What is the House of Representatives?
The Northwest Ordinance, passed under the Articles of Confederation, outlines the process for this to happen.
What is for new states to enter the Union?
These are the two things that a state's population determines (under the 3/5th's compromise).
What are how much it is taxed and how many congressmen it had in the House of Representatives?