Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
United States Constitution
Articles/Amendments to Constitution
Bill of Rights/Legislative Branch
100
Thomas Jefferson
Who is the author of the Declaration of Independence?
100
First attempt to make a new national government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
What is the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution?
100
7 and 27
How many Articles are there and how many amendments are there in the U.S. Constitution?
100
Bill of Rights
What is the name of the first 10 changes to the Constitution?
200
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
What are the three unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence?
200
Second Continental Congress
What group of people wrote the Articles of Confederation?
200
First major difficulty that delegates to Constitutional Convention had to settle
What is the struggle for power between the large states and the small states?
200
Establishes the Legislative Branch in Congress, consisting of a House of Representatives based on population of a state and a Senate for which each state has two
What is Article I?
200
First Amendment
What is the number of the amendment that establishes freedom of speech, press, and religion?
300
Philadelphia
What is city in which a group of delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress authorized the Declaration of Independence?
300
Reason Articles were considered "weak"
What is too much power was given to the central government?
300
Virginia Plan
What is the plan for a national government that favored the large states with two houses of Congress based on population?
300
Establishes the Executive Branch that includes the presidency and administrative agencies like Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services
What is Article II?
300
U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate
What are the two houses of the United States Congress?
400
Native Americans, African-Americans, poor whites
What three groups of people were NOT invited to participate in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence?
400
This document is the basis for all laws during the Revolutionary War Period
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
New Jersey Plan
What is the plan for a national government that favored the small states calling for one house of Congress based on population?
400
Establishes the Judicial Branch consisting of the national court system (Supreme Court whose head is called "Chief Justice?", Circuit Courts, etc.)
What is Article III?
400
435
What is the number of the members of the United States Congress?
500
Preamble, the list of grievances against Great Britain, and the call for independence of the 13 colonies
What are the three sections of the Declaration of Independence?
500
National courts only--no state courts; no power to tax; No power to make decisions about people exchanging goods with each other; Amendments had to be approved by all states; all important laws had to be agreed upon by all states; no president of the United States--just an overseer in Congress
What are the major weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
500
James Madison
Who was the "Father of the Constitution?"
500
Amendment 13
What is the amendment that gets rid of/abolishes slavery?
500
100
What is the number of senators that serve in the U.S. Senate?
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