Government
The way the president is elected
What is the Electoral college.
What was the ¾ act?
What is the counting of every three out of five slaves when determining the states total population for legislative representation purposes
Documents that established the rules of the government after the US. was declared independence from Great Britain.
What is The Articles of Confederation
The constitutional Convention date
What is 1787
Leader of the American Army in the American Revolution
What is General Goerge washington
Name of the people in support of the constitution
What is a Federalist
How did slavery begin?
What is the purchase of African war prisoners by Europeans and bringing them back by ships
Author of the federalists papers which helped create the constitution
What is James Madison
The great compromise
What is an agreement reached during the constitutional convention.
The side that won the American Revolution
What is America
The people who opposed the constitution
What is Anti-Federalists
Year it became illegal to buy slaves and sell slaves.
What is 1865
Three weaknesses of The Articles of Confederation
Amendments could be established with approval of only 13 states, congress could not enforce taxes and no courts were made to protect U.S. citezens rights
The significant event Shay’s Rebellion led to
What is the revision of The Articles of Confederation.
Reason for the American Revolution
What is the separation and independence from Britain
Compromises emerged from the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Great Compromise, the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Electoral College
What did the declaration say about slavery?
What is Thomas Jefferson wrote a 168-word statement in a draft of the Declaration that condemned slavery as one of the injustices the British monarch imposed on the colonies. The section was removed from the final text.
What did the Declaration of Independence do that differed itself from the Articles of Confederations
What is the seperation of the U.S and Great britain
Commonalities of the Virginia and New Jersey Plans
What is the separation of the government into three branches
Year the American Revolution Began
What is 1775
The states that wanted their slaves counted when determining representatives for the House of Representatives
What is Southerners
The amendment that brought down slavery in America
What is the 13th amendment
The greatest challenge for the delegates at the Constitutional Convention
What is a overpowering government
The greatest challenge for the delegates at the Constitutional Convention
What is the decisions of wether the states would have more power than the Federal Government
Year the American Revolution ended
What is 1784