The Articles of Confederation
This is the power that the Articles of Confederation gave the national government.
What is settling conflicts among states?
Britain was hurting the U.S. economy by doing this.
What is making Americans pay high tariffs on exports to Britain?
This house of Congress is based on equality.
What is the Senate?
The Federalists Papers purpose was this.
What is to persuade Americans to ratify the Constitution?
This amendment prohibits the government from forcing U.S. citizens to shelter soldiers in their home.
What is the third amendment?
This issue had to be agreed on before states would sign the Articles of Confederation.
What is control of the western land?
Shays started a rebellion because of this.
What is high taxes and heavy debts?
This keeps branches of government from being too powerful.
What is checks and balance?
This is why it was important for the people of New York and Virginia to ratify the Constitution.
What is because they had the largest populations?
The President can check on Congress by this.
What is a veto?
These were some more of the powers granted to Congress under the Articles of Confederation:
What are: settling conflicts among states, making coins, borrowing money, asking states for soldiers, and making treaties with other nations?
The original goal of the Constitutional Convention was to do this.
What is revise the Articles of Confederation?
This was the challenge in writing and ratifying the U.S. Constitution in regards to the Three-Fifths Compromise.
The Bill of Rights are the first _____ amendments.
What is 10?
This is what the Anti-Federalists wanted added to the Constitution.
What is a Bill of Rights?
These are the states that were formed out of the Northwest Ordinance.
What are: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota?
Shay's Rebellion led to a call for change in the Unites States because of this.
What is it convinced many Americans that the national government created by the Articles of Confederationwas weak?
This is the original reason for the Constitutional Convention. This is the way the Virginia Plan wanted representatives in Congress. This is the way the New Jersey Play wanted representation in Congress. This is how both plans came together. Was this a fair compromise?
What is: To revise the Articles of Confederation. Virginia Plan wanted two houses based on population. New Jersey wanted one house based on equality. The Great Compromise created one house based on equality (Senate) and one house based on population (House of Representatives). This is fair or not fair because...
The Constitution has been able to last more than 200 years because of this.
What is it can be changed or amended. It is flexible and can survive as a living document?
This is the sharing of power between the state and federal government.
What is federalism?
According to the laws regarding the western lands, each territories had to provide these.
What are public schools?
The name of the river where trade goods reached the port of New Orleans was this.
What is the Mississippi River?
The part of the Great Compromise that came from the Virginia Plan was this.
What is having representation based on population?
Name an anti-federalist. Why did they not support the Constitution.
Name a federalist. How did they try to persuade people to accept the Constitution.
What was promised to make the Bill of Rights the supreme law of the land?
George Mason was an anti-federalists. He wanted a section guaranteeing individual rights.
alexander Hamilton was a federalist. He wrote the Federalist Paper to try and get people on board with the Constitution.
Once a Bill of Rights was promised, the Constitution was signed.
Under the Articles of Confederation, this group could make treaties with other nations.
What is Congress?