Vocabulary
Vocabulary
General
General
General
100
Something that is made for the first time.
What is an INVENTION?
100
To approve.
What is to RATIFY?
100
These were 2 of the 5 delegates from NJ sent to the Constitutional Convention.
Who were GOVERNOR WILLIAM LIVINGSTON and LAWYER WILLIAM PATERSON?
100
TRUE OR FALSE: The members of the Constitutional Convention decided to revise or rewrite the Articles of Confederation.
What is FALSE. They decided to write a new Constitution called the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
100
True or False: New Jersey was the 3rd state to ratify the Constitution.
What is TRUE?
200
Representatives that took part at the convention.
What are DELEGATES?
200
A period of 100 years.
What is a CENTURY?
200
The articles of Confederation were written by this.
What is the SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS?
200
This shows the order in which events took place.
What is a TIME LINE?
200
The American Revolution ended in this year.
What is 1783?
300
A person who comes from another place to live in a country.
What is an IMMIGRANT?
300
Lawmaking body.
What is LEGISLATURE?
300
This inventor built both the steamboat and the steam-powered train.
Who iwas John Stevens from Hoboken?
300
In 1801 New Jersey first ________ connected Morristown with what is now the city of Elizabeth.
What is TURNPIKE?
300
This person helped develop the telegraph.
Who is Alfred Vail?
400
Ways to move people and goods from place to place.
What is TRANSPORTATION?
400
A road that costs money to use.
What is a TURNPIKE?
400
In 1787, this group met to revise the Articles of Confederation in Philadelphia attended by George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
What is the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION?
400
The Bill of Rights were added to the Constitution in this year.
What is 1791?
400
This plan of government set up a national government but the States held all the power so it was weak.
What is the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION?
500
Changes made to the Constitution.
What is AMENDMENTS?
500
An agreement in which each side gives up some of its wants.
What is a COMPROMISE?
500
This canal provided a water route between the upper Delaware River and Hudson River.
What is the MORRIS CANAL?
500
How many parts were in the Virginia Plan and What were they.
What is Three - a PRESIDENT, a COURT SYSTEM, and a LEGISLATURE?
500
Name 3 protected Freedoms from the Bill of Rights.
What is the (1) Freedom of Speech, (2) Freedom of Religion and (3) Freedom of Assembly?
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