Constitutional Convention
The Constitution
Washington's Presidency
Supreme Court Cases
Foreign Affairs
100

Why did the founding fathers meet in Philadelphia in 1787?

What is to revise the Articles of Confederation

100

What is an amendment?

What is a change or revision to the Constitution

100

Who was Washington's Secretary of State?

Who is Thomas Jefferson

100

Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1801-1835?

Who is John Marshall

100

What is the name of the law that restricted 1st Amendment rights of all citizens during John Adams' presidency?

What is the Sedition Act

200

What did the Great Compromise set up?

What is a bicameral (two house) legislature (congress)

200

What branch of government enforces the laws?

What is the executive branch

200

What precedent did Washington set that later became the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution?

What is the two-term presidency

200

What principle did Marbury v. Madison establish?

What is judicial review

200

What action made Thomas Jefferson question his interpretation of the Constitution?

What is the Louisiana Purchase or purchase of the Louisiana Territory

300

Which compromise solved the issue of representation based on the population of enslaved individuals?

What is the 3/5's Compromise

300

What is the ability for each branch of government to balance out the power of one another known as?

What is checks and balances
300

What was the National Bank established in exchange for?

What is moving the capital of the US to Washington D.C.

300

Which court case cites the necessary and proper clause as justification for creating a 2nd National Bank?

What is McCulloch v. Maryland

300

What policy essentially made Latin American resentful toward the United States?

What is the Monroe Doctrine

400

How is the president elected?

What is through the electoral college

400

Which Enlightenment thinker inspired the creation of three branches of government?

Who is Baron de Montesquieu

400

What two major pieces of advice to George Washington warn against in his Farewell Address?

What is to avoid political alliances and the policy of isolationism or neutrality

400

What is another name for the necessary and proper clause?

What is the elastic clause

400

What does the Louisiana Purchase do the size of the United States?

What is doubles it

500
What did the Anti-federalists want added to the Constitution before ratification?

What is a Bill of Rights

500

What term refers to the division of power between state and federal governments?

What is federalism

500

What is a cabinet?

What are the heads of departments appointed by the president

500

What principle or clause did Gibbons v. Ogden establish? 

What is the Supremacy Clause or the idea that federal law trumps state law or that the federal government has the power to regulate interstate trade

500

Who is quoted to have said "the government that governs best, governs least"

Who is Thomas Jefferson

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