What are representatives from each state at the convention?
What are delegates.
100
Constitution = ______
Law
100
What are the two sections of the Legislative Branch?
What are House of Representatives and Senate.
100
What is to veto a bill or law?
What is rejecting a bill or law.
200
Who are the two people who wanted to remove the Articles of Confederation and create a new Constitution.
Who are James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.
200
Where did the Constitutional Convention take place?
Where is Philadelphia.
200
What is the Preamble?
What is the part of the constitution stating the purpose (the WHY) of the constitution.
200
What are the three sections of the executive branch?
What are President, Vice President, and cabinet.
200
What is another name for the Legislative Branch?
What is Congress.
300
How long did it take to form the Articles of Confederation?
4 years.
300
What is the bill that every five slaves are counted as three free people?
What is the three-fifths compromise.
300
What is the name for the first 10 amendments to the constitution?
What is the Bill of Rights.
300
What are the three sections of the Judicial branch?
What are supreme court, national court, and state court.
300
What is the document that declared our separation from Great Britain, but is not the law?
What is the Declaration of Independence.
400
What are three strengths of the Articles of Confederation?
What are:
Declare war and make peace
Create an army and a navy
Borrow money
Establish a post office
Print money
400
What is the main argument at the Constitutional Convention?
What is the power of the central government.
400
The following are examples of which part of the Constitution: freedom of speech or religion, protect unlawful search and seizure, fair and speedy trial, and the right to bear arms.
What is the Bill of Rights.
400
aWhich branch of government makes the laws? Which enforces the laws? Which interprets the laws?
What is the government plan that said the House of Representatives would be based off of population and the Senate would have two votes per state?
What is the Connecticut Plan. It was a compromise between large and small states.
500
What are three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
What are:
Too weak
Not enough power given to the central government.
Couldn’t tax
Couldn’t raise army
To amend or change, they needed all 13 to agree to the change
500
How long did the Constitutional Convention last?
4 months.
500
Name one of the lines from the Preamble.
We the People of the United States
in order to form a more perfect union
establish justice
insure domestic tranquility
provide for the common defense
promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America
500
What is another name for the phrase "We the People"?
What is Popular Sovereignty.
500
What are the three Natural Rights stated in the Declaration of Independence.
What are (1) all men are created equal (2) everyone has certain unalienable rights and (3) they are Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.