Articles of Confederation
This is the name given to supporters of the Articles of Confederation, who wanted power to stay within the states.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
This is the name given to supporters of the Constitution, who wanted a strong, central government.
Who are Federalists?
The Constitution established these 3 branches of government.
What are the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch?
The foreign policy idea of neutrality means...
What is a country does not choose sides during a conflict?
The Constitutional Convention was held in this city, the U.S. capitol prior to NYC and Washington D.C.
What is Philadelphia?
The Anti-Federalists did not want to support the Constitution until this was added, to protect individual liberties such as freedom of speech.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This amendment guarantees the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly.
What is the First Amendment?
This ensures that no one branch of government can become more powerful than the others.
What is checks and balances?
After winning independence from Britain, at first, the United States sought a central government that was...
What is weaker than that of Britain?
This document was thrown out at the Constitutional Convention and a new form of government was created.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
These were some of the major weaknesses of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the inability to raise taxes, the inability to regulate trade between states, and the inability to pay back debts.
Federalists supported the ratification of the Constitution for these 2 reasons.
What is they wanted a strong government to protect business interests and they believed it would help the country deal with foreign powers?
This person is the head of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
This led to the emergence of the first political parties in the United States.
What are disagreements over the government's role in the economy?
This plan at the Constitutional Convention favored the smaller states, who wanted equal representation in Congress.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Anti-Federalists were skeptical of the new Constitution for these 2 reasons.
What is it gave too much power to the central government and it would not protect individual liberties?
A country where power is divided between the federal government and the states.
What is federalism?
These are the 2 parts of the legislative branch (Congress).
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
List 2 precedents George Washington established as president.
What is appointed the first cabinet and served only 2 terms?
This plan at the Constitutional Convention favored the larger states, who wanted representation in Congress based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This was one of the biggest challenges facing the United States under the Articles of Confederation.
What is determining how to organize territories into states?
This is one way that a proposed amendment can become part of the Constitution.
What is 3/4 of the states ratify the amendment?
List 2 ways the Supreme Court can check upon the president and Congress under the Constitution.
What is it can declare presidential actions unconstitutional and it can declare laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional?
List 2 controversies related to John Adams's presidency.
What is a law that infringed upon freedom of speech (Sedition Acts) and a conflict between France and Britain (XYZ Affair)?
This was decided that an enslaved person would count as three-fifths of a person when determining population.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?