What is the delegates planned to invite a son of George III to become the King of the United States?
200
Changes made to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
200
The document before the Constitution was written that described the plan of government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
The Secretary who took notes during the Grand Convention.
Who is James Madison?
200
Branches of government that have officials elected by people.
What is the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch?
200
Another word for tyranny.
What is dictatorship?
300
A document written to plan and describe the government of a new nation.
What is the Constitution?
300
The subject of one of the biggest arguments in the Grand Convention.
What is the power between the large and small states?
300
The Oldest delegate at the Grand Convention.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
The Branch that approves or vetoes laws (bills).
What is the Executive Branch?
300
Every state would have two members in the Senate and the members of the House of Representatives would be based upon a state's population.
What is the terms of the Great Compromise?
400
A person in favor of a strong central government and the Constitution.
What is a Federalist?
400
A serious concern about the approval of the Constitution was the missing of this item.
What is a list of rights for individuals?
400
Two future presidents who did not participate in the Grand Convention.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
400
The Branch that interprets laws to determine whether they are constitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400
Has to be a natural born citizen, a minimum of 35 years old, and has had to live in the United States for at least 14 years.
Who is the President of the United States?
500
The powers of each branch to control the actions of the others.
What are checks and balances?
500
A concern of the Southern states about a powerful national Congress.
What is it could make slavery illegal?
500
When George Washington, James Madison and the other founding fathers promised to add a missing piece to the Constitution, it was ratified by this many states and on this date.
What is 13 states on May 1790?
500
The name of the plan that caused delegates to get rid of the Articles of Confederation and write a new Constitution with Branches of Government outlined in the document.
What is the Virginia Plan?
500
An executive to carry out laws, a legislature to make laws including a Senate and a House of Representatives, a judicial branch with a court system to decide legal cases.
What is the Virginia Plan for the U.S. Government?