Plan that called for representation in Congress to be based solely on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
100
What important event occurred in 1787 in U.S. History?
What is the signing of the U.S. Constitution?
200
The Philadelphia Convention of 1787 would be included in which era of U.S. History?
What is the Constitutional Era?
200
Which amendment deals with the quartering of troops?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
200
Which amendment deals with the separation of church and state and religious freedom?
What is the 1st Amendment?
200
Which two of the following people shared a fear of the federal government becoming too powerful- George Mason, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry?
Who are George Mason and Patrick Henry?
200
Which plan for government in U.S. History did not require an executive branch, left the power in the hands of individual states, and was based on a one state, one vote policy?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
Which plan dealt with how to count slaves for the purposes of taxation and representation?
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
300
A people deliberating in a temperate moment…on the plan of government most likely to secure their happiness, would first be aware that those charged with the public happiness might betray their trust. An obvious precaution against this danger would be to divide the trust between different bodies of men.
—James Madison
The excerpt above was most likely written when?
What is during the Constitutional Convention?
300
What does the fourth amendment protect?
What is protection against unreasonable searches and seizures?
300
Anti- Federalists insisted which item be included in the Constitution?
What is a Bill of Rights?
300
What were two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
What is the lack of an executive, lack of a judiciary, the inability to collect taxes, etc...?
400
What was the result of the Great Compromise?
What is a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the House and the Senate being comprised of 2 Senators from each state?
400
"A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the
government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government."
Alexander Hamilton
Who would support a statement such as this one above?
Who are the Federalists?
400
Which branch were Patrick Henry and the Anti-Federalists would become too powerful?
What is the executive branch?
500
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended
offenses...
This colonial grievance from the Declaration of Independence was addressed in which amendment (s)?
What are the 6th and 7th amendments?
500
Which group supported a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution?