Vocab
What was the name of the meeting held in Philadelphia to create a new constitution?
Bonus: Where did the LAST meeting delegates had take place? Name a state that DID NOT attend +200pts
What is the Constitutional Convention
Bonus: Anapolis, Maryland +100pts
CT, MD, SC, or GA +100pts
What was the name for official approval by the states?
Bonus: Which colonies approved of the constitution AFTER New Hampshire? +100pts
What is Ratification
Who was, VA, NY, or RI +100pts
Who are the two groups debating for support/opposition of the constitution?
Bonus: Name a delegate from either side +200pts
Who are Federalists and Anti-federalists
Bonus:
Feds = AH, GW. JM, JJ, BF +100pts
Anti-Feds + GM, PH, SA +100pts
True or False:
The following are all Anti-federalists:
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, James Madison, and George Mason.
What is False James Madison does not belong
The Great Compromise was suggested by _____________. It's alternative name is _____________________.
Who is Roger Sherman + The CT plan/compromise
What was the name of the territory including IL, IN, MI, OH, and WI?
Bonus: Name all of the territories above. +100pts
What is the NW Territory
Bonus: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin +100pts
What is happening when there's an increase in prices combined with the reduced value of money?
What is Inflation
What is the name of the system that keeps any branch of government from becoming too powerful?
Bonus: Which game is this similar to? +100pts
What is the system of Checks and Balances
Bonus: Rock, paper, scissors +100pts
Which states ratified the constitution 1st and last?
Bonus: How many colonies needed to sign the constitution in order for it to go into effect? +100pts
Who are Delaware + Rhode Island
Bonus: 9/13 colonies +100pts
Name the 9th, 11th, 12th, and 13th states to ratify the constitution.
What are:
New Hampshire
Virginia
New York &
Rhode Island
What were the essays supporting the Constitution called?
Bonus: Who were ALL OF the authors + how did Anti-feds respond? +200pts
What are the Federalists Papers
Bonus: Who are Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison +100
They wrote the Anti-0federalists Papers +100
What was the name for any official changes to a document?
Bonus: What is the name for the first 10 Amendments found in the Constitution? +100pts
What is an Amendment
The Bill of Rights +100pts
Which plan created a unicameral, or one-house, legislature based on equality
Bonus: Who proposed this plan at the Constitutional Convention? +200pts
What is the New Jersey Plan
Who was William Patterson +200pts
How would slavery be handled at the convention? What do delegates decide to do?
Bonus: What would happen if slavery was abolished any earlier? +100pts
What is ban the slave trade in 1808
Bonus: Southern states threatened to leave the union +100pts
Which City, State and Building does the Constitutional Convention take place.
Bonus: Name 3 Delegates who attended +150pts
+50pts for every name after
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Independence Hall
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
James Wilson
Ben Franklin
William Patterson
Edmond Randolph
Roger Sherman
Not a delegate but counts: PH,GM,SA,MOW,
What was the name of the new national constitution, which made a new Confederation Congress the national government & loosley unionized the 13 colonies?
Bonus: Which document replaced it? +150
What are the Articles of Confederation
Bonus: What is the Constitution +150pts
What was the name of the period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment called?
Bonus: Name a factor that led to this issue +100
What is a Depression
Bonus:
What is:
-Loss of British trade
-Large war debt + unpayable taxes
-Weak central gov't because of the AoC or
-low incomes + limited credit
+100
What was the agreement that gave each state one vote in the upper house of the legislature and a number of representatives based on its population in the lower house?
Bonus: Who proposed this plan at the Constitutional Convention (where was he from) and what is the job today for this agreement? +300pts
What is the Great Compromise
Bonus: Roger Sherman (CT Plan) +150pts
JOB = Congress - Legislative Branch +150pts
Which problems led Daniel Shays + other farmers to start a rebellion in MA?
Bonus: What was the name of the rebellion + what punishment did they recieve? +200pts
What is high taxes + heavy debts
Bonus: Shays Rebellion +100pts
jail time + death sentences that were revoked +100pts
Name the 3 congressional houses, their job, and who is in charge
Bonus: Which branch is over the police? Which branch houses our Senators? +200
Legislative Branch - Makes the laws - Congress
Executive Branch - Enforces the laws - President
Judicial Branch - Sees laws a practiced fairly - Judges
Bonus: Executive =100pts Legislative = 100pts
What is the idea that political power belongs to the people?
Bonus: Which Amendment from the Bill of Rights protects this ideology? +100pts
What is Popular Sovereignty
Bonus: Amendment #9 or 10 +100pts
What is the term for voting rights?
Bonus: What group was denied these rights in the 1700/1800s? +100pts
What is Suffrage
Bonus: Native Americans, Women, & or Slaves +100pts
Which plan gave supreme power to the central government and created a bicameral legislature made of two groups, or houses, of representatives based on population?
Bonus: Who proposed this plan at the Constitutional Convention? +200pts
What is the Virginia Plan
Edmond Randolph +200pts
Fill in the Blanks:
At the Constitutional Convention, __________ supported the __________ because it allowed each state
representation based on population.
Bonus: What was the name of the compromises made at the Constitutional Convention? +100pts
Larger states + Virginia Plan
Bonus: The Great Compromise +50pts
The 3/5ths Compromise +50pts
Which Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant present?
What is amendment #4