Constitution Facts
The document that provides the current plan of government for the United States.
What is The Constitution?
The number of times the Constitution has been changed, or Amended, since it was written.
What is 27?
The branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws, it includes the President.
What is the Executive branch?
The Anti Federalists are responsible for adding this list of 10 amendments to the constitution before it could be ratified.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Costing $15 Million and doubling the size of the country, this French territory became part of the US in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The number of branches that share power in the United States government.
What is 3?
The number of Amendments that had to be added as the Bill of Rights to get the Constitution ratified.
What is 10?
The branch of government responsible for writing the laws, it includes the House and Senate.
What is the Legislative branch?
This group argued that, in order to be taken seriously as a government by other countries, the US Federal government needed a lot of power to regulate trade, taxes, and treaties.
What is the Federalists?
A controversial law allowing Missouri to join the US as a slave state, Maine to join as a free state, and requiring that territory north of the 36 30 line of latitude would remain free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who has the power to declare war according to the Constitution?
Who is Congress?
This amendment protects the rights of people even if they are not listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
The branch of government responsible for judging the fairness of laws, it includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial branch?
This group argued that only state governments should have the power to tax, print money, and regulate trade because they understand the needs of the people better than the Federal Government does.
What is the Anti Federalists?
A Landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that Black Americans were not citizens of the Untied States and therefore had no rights in America. Today it is recognized to be a very bad decision!
What is the Dred Scott Case / Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Who has the power to choose the President according to the Constitution?
Who is the Electoral College?
This Amendment protects the powers and rights of states even if they are not listed in the Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment?
A system designed to balance powers between the branches so that each can control the other two if they get too powerful.
What is the system of Checks and Balances?
This group argued that state governments must be weaker than the federal government so that the Federal government can resolve conflicts between them.
What is the Federalists?
A controversial law that overturned the Missouri Compromise and allowed territory north of the 36 30 line of latitude to enter the US as a slave state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A section of the constitution that originally counted Black Americans as a fraction of a person, for the purpose of determining representation in Congress.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
This Amendment protects the people from cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th Amendment?
The middle level of the Federal Court System, also called the Appellate Courts.
What are the Circuit Courts?
This group argued that a strong Federal government would quickly become a tyranny worse than England if not carefully controlled by a Bill of Rights.
What is the Anti Federalists?
A belief based in religion and the desire for more land, stating that it was the fate of America to spread Westward across the content, bringing Christian values and prosperity with it.
What is Manifest Destiny? (Westward Expansion for 1/2 points)