Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were our first:
Constitution
What did the Three-Fifths Compromise decide?
That enslaved people (primarily in the South) would be counted as 3/5 of a person for purposes of representation and taxation.
The people who were pro-Constitution, no changes, were the:
Federalists
10
An amendment is:
An addition or change (in this case to a document).
What important government job did the Articles not include?
President (or Supreme Court judges, I guess).
Combined the Virginia Plan (large states) and New Jersey Plan (small states) so that Congress has the House of Representatives (number of reps. based on population) and the Senate (every state gets 2 representatives).
The people who were anti-Constitution, or at least add a Bill of Rights, were the:
Anti-Federalists
Which amendment covers a lot of freedoms, like religion, press, assembly, speech, expression, etc.?
Name one rebellion that happened because of the weaknesses of the Articles.
Shays' Rebellion or the Whiskey Rebellion or Fries' Rebellion.
What does "bicameral" mean?
Two houses/branches of government.
Which group wanted the states to have the most power?
Anti-Federalists
Which amendment allows most of us to "keep and bear arms"?
The Second Amendment.
How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 influence westward expansion?
It established policies for the creation of new states and the first 5 new states free states.
Couldn't tax, regulate trade, or enforce the laws it made.
What did the Commerce Compromise decide?
That we'd hold off on banning the international slave trade for 20 years (and that Congress could regulate interstate trade).
Which group wanted the federal government to have the most power?
Federalists
Why was the Bill of Rights created and added to the Constitution?
We have what is called a "limited government". What might this mean?
There are restrictions on our government (ex. separation of powers, checks and balances) that try to keep the different branches from becoming too powerful.
What does "unicameral" mean?
What does it mean to compromise?
When people agree to solve a problem by giving up a little bit of what they want so both sides are happy.
What was the name of the collection of 85 essays written by some of the Federalists' leaders?
True or false? The Ninth Amendment says that we have even more rights that aren't listed in the Constitution.
True.
Name the 3 branches of U.S. government and what they do.
Executive (enforces laws; leader/president), Legislative (makes laws; representatives), Judicial (interprets laws; judges/courts)