Lesson 1
English document, signed by King John in 1215, that limited the power of the monarch.
What is the Magna Carta?
Under the ___________________, Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The _________________was held in May 1787 in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to improve the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
the idea that political authority is in the hands of the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
__________ occurs when there are increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money.
What is Inflation?
a law setting up a system for surveying and dividing western lands.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
A territory including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
What is the Northwest Territory?
Proposal for a bicameral legislature chosen on the basis of state populations.
What is the Virginia Plan?
system which divides the powers of government between a central government and the states that make up a nation.
What is federalism?
A period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment.
What is a depression?
Many states’ constitutions expanded ___________, or the right to vote, by allowing any white man who paid taxes to vote.
What is suffrage?
A law that established the Northwest Territory and formed a political system for the region.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Plan to give each state an equal number of votes, and thus an equal voice, in the federal government.
What is the New Jersey Plan? (Small state plan)
Branch responsible for proposing and passing laws. It is made up of two houses, as created in the Great Compromise.
What is the legislative branch?
Led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Supreme Court in Massachusetts.
Who is Daniel Shays?
Set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government.
What is a constitution?
The Second Continental Congress sent the Articles of Confederation to each state legislature for ____________, or official approval, before the new national government could take effect.
What is ratification?
Agreement to count only three-fifths of a state’s slaves when deciding representation in Congress
What is the three-Fifths Compromise?
Branch responsible for interpreting laws, punishing criminals, and settling disputes between states.
What is the judicial branch?
Britain forced American merchants to pay high taxes on imports or exports called _________.
What are tariffs?
Declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or pay for a church with tax money.
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Because the Confederation Congress had no power to regulate ____________________ — trade between two or more states—states followed their own trade interests.
What is interstate commerce?
Agreement in which Congress would have two houses. Each state would have two representatives in the Senate. The number of representatives in the house would be determined by the state’s population.
What is the great compromise?
The Federalist Papers were written anonymously under the name Publius. They were actually written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and _____.
Who is John Jay?
Some Antifederalists, including _______, felt that the main problem was that the Constitution did not have a section that guaranteed individual rights.
Who is George Mason?