Lesson 1
The second continental congress created the first government called?
This plan had a president, courts, and a congress with two houses and state population would decide how many representatives were in each house.
What is the Virginia plan?
The opening section of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
The idea that power lies with the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A detailed, written plan for government.
What is the Constitution?
A plan for surveying land in the west, for admitting new states to the union and outlawed slavery in the west.
What is the Ordnance of 1785?
This plan was based on the Articles of Confederation, with some changes and the plan kept the Confederation’s one-house congress, each state would have one vote but Congress could set taxes and regulate, or control, trade.
What is the New Jersey plan?
The opening section of the Constitution.
What are the Articles?
The principal that a ruler or a government is not all-powerful; a government that can do only what the people allow it to do.
What is Limited Government?
Regardless or in spite of.
What is Despite?
This list guaranteed the basic freedoms and legal protections that the state’s citizens would enjoy.
What is the Bill of Rights?
An agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation.
What is The Great Compromise?
Any change in the Constitution.
What are the Amendments?
Principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern.
What is the Rule of Law?
To take on or accept a role or responsibility.
What is assume?
This law set up a government for this area, which was called the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
An agreement providing that enslaved persons would count as three-fifths of other persons in determining representation in Congress.
What is The Three-Fifths Compromise?
The lawmaking branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
Powers granted directly to the national government by the Constitution; another name for expressed powers.
What is Enumerated Powers.
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution.
What is Shays Rebellion?
A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president.
What is the Electoral College?
The branch of government that carries out laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
A system in which each branch of government is able to check, or restrain, the power of the others.
What are Checks and Balances?
Supporters of the Constitution.
What is a Federalist.