Founding Documents and Principles
These are rights that cannot be taken away—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
This rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This set of the first ten amendments protects individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Supporters of a strong central government and the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
Washington warned in his Farewell Address to avoid these two dangers.
What are political parties and foreign alliances?
This principle means that the people are the source of government power.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Articles of Confederation purposely created a weak central government because Americans feared this.
What is tyranny/strong central authority like the British?
This amendment protects citizens from having soldiers housed in their homes.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
Supporters of stronger state governments and the Bill of Rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This 1794 protest over an excise tax challenged federal power but was crushed by Washington.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This principle divides government responsibilities among the three branches.
What is separation of powers?
Give one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is…? (Examples: no power to tax, no executive branch, no national court system.)
This amendment gives powers not delegated to the federal government to the states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Hamilton and Jefferson argued mainly about this issue regarding federal vs. state power.
What is the power of the national government (including the National Bank)?
This event during Adams’ presidency involved French agents demanding a bribe.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This phrase in the Preamble means keeping peace and order within the country.
What is domestic tranquility?
These events—Boston Massacre, Articles of Confederation, Treaty of Paris, Lexington and Concord—are all associated with this major event.
What is the American Revolution?
Freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition are guaranteed by this amendment.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This concept introduced in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions said states could reject federal laws.
What is nullification?
This clause gives Congress flexibility to make laws necessary to carry out its duties.
What is the Elastic Clause?
This document created the first U.S. government after Independence.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This law created a process for new states and banned slavery in the Old Northwest.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These powers are shared by both federal and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
Hamilton said the U.S. should take over the states’ debts because it would do this.
What is strengthen the federal government and build national credit?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?