People
This person is known as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
This is a written set of laws detailing what a government CAN and CANNOT do.
What is a constitution?
This was our first form of national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is one success of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This was the first person to be killed in the American Revolution.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
He escaped poverty in the Caribbean to become the author of most of the Federalist Papers.
This means that the *people* of a country have the ultimate authority.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is how many states had to agree in order to amend (change) the Articles of Confederation.
What is 13?
This was the reason that the Continental Army soldiers could not be paid during their time in the Revolutionary War.
What was Congress could not tax?
This was the name of the woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Revolution.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
This was the person who was AGAINST ratifying the Constitution.
Who is George Mason?
This is a system in which each branch of government has a some power over the other two branches.
What is a system of checks and balances?
These three terms all describe the government that controls all of the states.
What are federal, central, and national?
This person led a rebellion against the state of Massachusetts.
Who was Daniel Shays?
These groups of people led the opposition to British policies by communicating with each other.
What are committees of correspondence?
He came up with the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
This describes a branch of government that has TWO parts.
What is bicameral?
These two things were included in each STATE constitution.
What are popular sovereignty and protection of individual rights?
This is the main reason that the problems with the AoC could not be easily fixed.
What was *all* thirteen states had to approve any changes.
This was the first permanent European settlement in LOUISIANA.
What is Natchitoches?
This person is responsible for creating the Three-Fifths Compromise.
Who is James Wilson?
This is when governmental power is shared between state governments and the national government.
What is federalism?
These are THREE things that the national government could NOT do under the Articles of Confederation.
What are collect taxes, raise an army, be easily changed, or force states to comply?
These two people wanted to scrap the Articles of Confederation and start over.
Who were James Madison and Alexander Hamilton?
This is what the wealthy "free people of color" were called in New Orleans.
Who were les gens de couleur libre?