Potpourri
The year and location of the Constitutional Convention.
What is 1787 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Bonus: What is the name of the building where the Declaration of Independence AND The Constitution were adopted?
The agreement on how decisions would be made at the Constitutional Convention and the number of votes each state would get.
What is 1 vote per State?
The states that were in favor of the Virginia Plan.
What was the Big States?
A legislative body that has 2 parts. (vocabulary word)
What is a bicameral legislature?
Bonus: What compromise made this happen in the U.S.?
The group that argued in favor of the Constitution.
What were the Federalists?
Name and be able to describe as many main characters as possible from the Movie, The Patriot.
100 points each...
Who are Benjamin Martin, Gabriel, Thomas, Anne Howard, Mr. Howard, General Lord Cornwallis, Aunt Charlotte, Colonel William Tavington, Jean, Mr. Peter Howard, Reverend Oliver, Colonel Harry Burwell, etc...
The Movie The Crossing, depicted events that took place in this year.
What is 1776?
The name of the system used to elect the President of the United States.
What is the Electoral College?
This was the first decision reached by the delegates at the convention.
What is cancel the Articles of Confederation and start over?
The division of power between different levels of government.
What is Federalism?
Vocabulary: A legislative body that has 2 parts or houses.
What is Bicameral?
The compromise that determined how slaves would count towards the total population of a state and consequently Federal political representation.
What was the 3/5ths Compromise?
The document, or list of rights, that became the compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists to allow the Constitution to finally be ratified and how many?
What is the Bill of Rights and the first 10 Amendments?
Bonus: Name as many rights as possible from the Bill of Rights? worth 100 points each. No points as soon as you say an incorrect one.
The state where most of the movie, The Patriot, took place.
What is South Carolina?
A private individual or group who join an armed conflict for profit, is an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other involved party.
What is a Mercenary?
Bonus: German mercenaries hired by Great Britain to fight in the Revolutionary War?
The Presidential Candidates, their Vice Presidential running mates and their political affiliations.
What are Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and Republicans Donald Trump and J.D. Vance?
Elected the President of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
Bonus: Who was the President of the 2nd Continental Congress?
The name of the first government adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
The smaller states wanted representation in the Legislature to be __________.
What is Equal?
Bonus: What was the name of this plan?
If a state had 1 million slaves in 1789, it would count as __________________ in regards to the total population count for the U.S. Legislature.
What is 600,000?
Rights or powers that are shared by different levels of government.
What are concurrent rights or powers?
The rank and assignment given to Benjamin Martin after he finally joins the Continental Army.
What is Colonel and keep the British Army in the south by any means necessary?
The winter encampment that brought the Continental Army to a higher level of cohesion and determination.
What is Valley Forge?
Kamala Harris' occupation and training before she went into politics.
What is a Lawyer, District Attorney, Attorney General?
The 3 branches of our Federal Government under the Constitution.
What are Executive, Legislative and Judicial?
The “Father of the Constitution”?
Who was James Madison?
The only branch of Federal Government created by the Articles of Confederation.
What was a Legislative Branch?
Knowing that the issue of slavery could potentially tear the new United States asunder, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention agreed to not make any laws about slavery until ____________, or about ________ years.
What is 1808 or 20 years?
The number of states needed to ratify the Constitution which would make it the Supreme Law of the Land.
What is 9 or 2/3rds?
The occupation / training of Donald Trump before he went into politics.
What is a businessman?
The uprising in Massachusetts that helped the country understand that the Articles of Confederation needed work.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Bonus: What was the only battles of this rebellion?
The idea that the Constitution is the highest law of the land. The ______________ Clause.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Under the first government of the U.S., the ___________ Governments would be more powerful than the _________________ Government.
What is the State Governments would be more powerful than the Federal Government?
The agreement and year of the official end of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
Under our first government, the United States could declare ________, but couldn't raise an _________.
What are they could declare WAR, but couldn't raise an ARMY?
In the Movie The Patriot, after reading General Cornwallis' journal, this is what Benjamin Martin determined to be his biggest weakness.
What is Pride?
The city and state where the mercenary soldiers were stationed to "watch" over the Americans in the movie, The Crossing.
give both city and state
What is Trenton, NJ?
By 1790, this was the number of states who had ratified the Constitution.
What is all 13 states?
The number of children in the Martin Family at the end of the movie.
What is 6?