The Constitutional Convention
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights/Amendments
Origins of American Government
Miscellaneous
100
Location of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
100
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union..."
What is the preamble of the U.S. Constitution?
100
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
Document in which the United States declared its independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
Of the written national constitutions, this one is the oldest and the shortest.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
200
The man who was unanimously elected president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
200
Belief that government can only rule with the consent of the governed.
What is "popular sovereignty"?
200
This amendment made slavery illegal in the United States and was passed in 1865.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
The belief that God gave certain people the right to rule.
What is "Divine Right"?
200
The oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.
Who was Benjamin Franklin (81 years old)?
300
The only State that did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
300
This article of the U.S. Constitution talks about the States' and the powers that are granted to them.
What is Article 4?
300
This amendment was passed in 1920 and gave all female U.S. citizens 18 and older the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
300
The first national government of the United States that ruled during the Revolutionary War.
What is the 2nd Continental Congress?
300
Established on November 26, 1789, the first national "Thanksgiving Day" was originally created by this man as a way of "giving thanks" for the U.S. Constitution.
Who was George Washington?
400
The compromise agreed to in the Constitutional Convention that established two Houses of legislature in the U.S., the smaller being the Senate with equal representation, and the larger being the House with proportional representation.
What is the Connecticut Compromise or the Great Compromise?
400
This is what it is called when a legislature is consisting of one house.
What is unicameral?
400
This amendment was added as James Madison's attempt to ensure that the Bill of Rights were not seen as granting the people of the U.S. only the specific rights listed.
What is the 9th amendment?
400
Name at least two of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Congress did not have the power to tax, Congress could not regulate trade among the States, each State had only one vote regardless of size, there was no executive power to enforce laws by Congress, there was no national court, there needed to be a 9/13 state majority to pass laws, and amendments to the Articles required the consent of all 13 States?
400
The number of States needed to ratify the Constitution.
What is nine?
500
The word used to mean formal approval of the Constitution by the States.
What is ratification?
500
This was the compromise that settled the dispute over how "proportional representation" was to be defined (whether to include slaves or other "property".
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787?
500
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in 1971 and allows all U.S. citizens who are 18 years or older have the right to vote.
What is the 26th amendment?
500
These two men went to the Constitutional Convention with the purpose of creating a new government rather than fixing the existing one (Articles of Confederation).
Who were James Madison and Alexander Hamilton?
500
Of the 55 delegates attending the Constitutional Convention only this number of delegates actually signed the Constitution.
What is 39?
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