Constitutional Conventions
That document that the delegates of the Constitutional Convention were trying to fix.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
What is ratification?
What amendment gives us the right to freedom of speech, press, petition and assembly.
What is the first amendment?
A person is arrested to loitering. The Judge sentences him to 30 years in prison. What amendment is the Judge breaking.
a) The 10 Amendment
b) The 8th Amendment
c) The 5th Amendment
What is (B) the 8th Amendment for cruel and unusual punishment.
The compromise that declared 3/5th of all slaves should be counted towards population.
What is the 3/5th compromise?
The rebellion that forced the change to a new government in 1787.
What is Shays Rebellion?
The process that began after the Constitution was signed in 1787?
What is the ratification process?
What is the Amendment that gives us the right to bear arms?
What is the second Amendment?
The police stop citizen at the traffic light. The Police like the person car so they decide to search it. What amendment is this breaking.
a) The 5th amendment
b) The 6th Amendment
c) The 4th Amendment.
What is (C) the 4th amendment? The right to search and seizures.
New Jersey is state with a small population. How did they want states to represented in National Government?
What is want states representation to be equal?
Issues of the first government of the United States of America.
What are no national military, no national currency, no way to tax the citizens?
The faction during the ratification process did not want the constitution to be ratified.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
What amendment protects citizens from having to let soldiers in their homes forcefully.
What is the third amendment?
A person is arrested for the trespassing. The judge decides not to give the citizen a jury trail. What amendment is being violated.
a) The 7th Amendment
b) The 8th Amendment
c) The 10th Amendment
What is (A) the 7th Amendment? The right to a trial by jury.
What was the name of the compromise that created a bicameral legislature. One house is based on population; the other based on equality.
What is the Great Compromise?
The issues the constitution convention had to solve to create the new constitution.
What is representation?
What is Slavery?
What is the Presidency?
The faction that wanted the Constitution to be ratified.
Who are the Federalist?
Amendments 5,6 and 7 all have to do with this the rights of this type of person.
What are rights of the accused?
A person is arrested and put into jail. They spend 4 years in jail awaiting for trail. What amendment is being violated?
a) 7th Amendment
b) 8th Amendment
c) 6th Amendment
The (C) the 6th amendment. The right a speedy and fair trail.
What were the two types of states that argued over representation in government.
What are small population states and large population states?
Of the 55 delegates that participated in the constitutional convention, how many of them signed the Constitution.
What are 38 delegates.
The differences between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
What are the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
What is the strength of the National Government?
This amendment states that not all rights are listed in the Constitution?
What is the ninth amendment?
In the constitution their is no mention of a the national government creating roads in the state of Maine. The national government decided to tax Maine to make roads in Maine.What amendments in being violated?
a) The 7th amendment
b) The 10th amendment
c) the 8th amendment
What is (C) the 10th Amendment. What is that all things not water in the national government is given to the states?
The man who created The Great Compromise?
Who is Roger Sherman?