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This document listed the Colonists complaints against the King and stated ideals of liberty for the new government.
What is Declaration of Independence?
100
This document set up the first government in this US.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
He is on the 10 dollar bill, and he was a Federalist.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
100
States are mainly independent and only loosely joined together in this type of government.
What is a confederation?
100
This old man was not allowed to write the Constitution, because the other delegates believed he would write jokes into it.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
This English Document gave states the idea for listing protected rights in their state constitutions.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
The number of presidents that served under the Articles of Confederation.
What is zero?
200
He wrote the US Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
200
How many states had to agree to change the Articles of Confederation?
What is 13 (all)?
200
Because of abuses by the King, the Framers wanted to create a government that was intentional this.
What is weak/limited?
300
This is what we call Roger Sherman's suggestion that we combine the ideas in the New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
The city the Constitutional Convention was in.
What is Philadelphia?
300
This law made plan for surveying the Northwest Territory in the Great Lakes region
What is Ordinance of 1785?
300
Baron de Montesquieu is responsible for this idea being in the Constitution.
What is separation of powers?
300
Besides Jay and Hamilton, this man also was an author to the Federalist Papers.
Who is James Madison?
400
This is the first goal of the Preamble?
What is to form a more perfect union.
400
These people tried to gain support for the Constitution?
Who are the Federalists?
400
These documents are a series of essays written to try and get people to support the new government (I showed them to you in class).
What is The Federalist Papers.
400
This uprising by a local farmer who was losing him farm to tax debt caused many people to fear for the government.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
This small state chose not to attend the Constitutional Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
500
This plan called for all states to have equal representation in Congress
What is the New Jersey Plan?
500
This is a government that is run by people who are elected by representatives, or a representative democracy
What is a republic?
500
The Anti-Federalists wanted this added to the Constitution.
What is a Bill of Rights?
500
This law set up government in the Northwest Territory in the Great Lakes region
What is Northwest Ordinance?
500
Review Question: This document was written to persuade Colonists to separate from Great Britain and start a new government.
What is Common Sense?
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