What is the first government the United States ever set up?
100
A convention that strengthened the national government.
What is the Continental Congress?
100
Provides a plan for the U.S. government
What is the main purpose of the U.S. Constitution?
100
The principle that the power of the government lies with the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Written plan for the government
What is the constitution?
200
Bill of Rights
What are basic freedoms the United States cannot take away?
200
Population would determine how many representatives each state got in to houses, according to this plan.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
The introduction to the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
200
The principle that states that the federal government should be divided into 3 separate branches, each with their own task.
What is separation of powers?
200
A legislature that consists of two parts or houses
What is a bicameral legislature?
300
Set up a plan for surveying and dividing land into townships
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
300
Each state gets one vote in one house, according to this plan.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
First 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
System that allows each branch to limit the power of the other branches, ensuring no branch becomes all-powerful
What is checks and balances?
300
A group of people named by the state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
400
Shay's Rebellion
What caused American citizens to want to change the Articles of Confederation?
400
A compromise that allowed for a two-house Congress, with one house (Senate) giving states two votes and the other (House of Representatives) that gave votes based on a state's population.
What is the Connecticut Compromise (Great Compromise)?
400
Outlines the powers of the executive branch
What is Article II?
400
Principle that the government can only do what the people allow.
What is limited government?
400
A form of government in which power is divided between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
500
A plan for admitting new states to the Union, also outlawed slavery in the Northwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
9 of 13 states were needed to complete this task
What is approving the new Constitution?
500
Describes when and how the Constitution is to be changed.
What is Article V?
500
States that the Constitution is the highest law in the United States and that no other law may violate the Constitution