Vocabulary
What is Provision?
an item in a legal document that states a condition or requirement
What is Compliance?
the act of doing what is expected or what is ordered by law
America’s first plan for a national government was called the_________________.
Articles of Confederation.
What is limited government?
what the government can and cannot do
What is Assemble?
to gather together
What is amend?
to change or add to a law or document
How Shays’s Rebellion exposes a weakness in the Articles of Confederation?
Having a weak national government: without an armed force, uprisings and riots could keep occurring, threatening the nation’s stability. (Lack of protection for citizens)
How many states needed to agree in order for Congress to enter into a treaty?
9 states needed to agree for Congress to enter into a treaty.
What is Conscience?
a sense or belief a person has that a certain action is right or wrong
What had to happen in order to amend, or change, any part of the Articles of Confederation?
To amend the Articles, all thirteen states had to agree.
Name a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
Congress lacked the ability to tax the states
How many people needed to live in a territory before the people there could apply to become a state?
60,000 people
What is Abolitionist?
a person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s
What is freedom of speech?
people can speak their minds and criticize the government without fear of being arrested.
Who was Elizabeth Freeman?
Enslaved women who used the Massachusetts constitution to gain her freedom.
Under the Articles of Confederation, who ran the national government?
No one ran the national government under the Articles. Each year, Congress elected one of it's members to be president of Congress.
What is Infringe?
to intrude on someone’s rights or possessions
What was the name of the document that limited the rights of British monarchs?
Magna Carta
Name 2 provisions that was included in all the early state constitutions?
1. state governments could not search a person’s home without good reason
2. could not put a person in jail without a good reason
3. could not keep a person in jail without a trial
4. could not take away a person’s right to trial by jury
5.could not stop people from assembling peaceably
6. could not take away the people’s right to ask or even to demand that their government do something they wanted done.
Use the quotation to answer the question.
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.”—Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson’s statement is most closely related to which right?
Freedom of Religion