Articles of Confederation
This violent uprising led by a Massachusetts farmer illustrated that the Articles of Confederation was too weak to successfully govern the country.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This branch of the United States government was created with the first article of the Constitution.
What is the Legislative Branch?
What is the number of representatives each state would have in Congress?
This group threatened to prevent the Constitution from being ratified unless a list of basic protections from the government was added to the document.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
What appointed position in the US government has the longest term length?
What is a Supreme Court Justice (life)?
Under the Articles of Confederation, newly created laws needed to be approved by this number of the original thirteen states.
What is 9 out of 13
The first ten amendments added to the original draft of the Constitution are also known as this. They were added because the Antifederalists wanted protect personal liberties from an abusive government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This plan created by William Patterson, stated that there should be a legislative branch with only one house and representation in that house would be equal for every state.
New Jersey Plan
In the years prior to the American revolution, as well as during the war, many citizens homes and ships were invaded and their goods taken by British forces. To protect against this in the future this amendment was added to the Constitution.
What is the 4th Amendment?
These people represent a district within their state and serve a short 2 year term?
What is a representative (member of the House of Representatives)?
Rome utilized this type of government for a time, which provided an example for the founding fathers when they created the government.
What is a republic?
This article in the Constitution outlines the layout and function of the executive branch.
What is Article II (2)?
According to the Virginia Plan, the number of representatives each state sent to Congress would be based on this?
What is the state's population?
This amendment guarantees the right to freedom of religion, press, speech, to assemble peacefully and petition the government.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Each state has two of these.
What are senators?
Under the Articles congress lacked the power to do this, which often left them to beg for money from the individual states.
What is pass taxes?
The framers wanted the Constitutional to be able to evolve with the times, therefore they allowed for the document to be changed through this process.
What is the amendment process?
Roger Sherman created this compromise as a way to make both the large states and small states happy.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)
This amendment has faced a lot of scrutiny over the past decade, but many of the early colonists felt it was necessary for their protection.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This is the more "common name" for the legislative branch of the United States government.
What is Congress?
This group of people were the most outspoken supporters of the Articles of Confederation, even though they felt it should be revised.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This was the first state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
Many of the Southern states wanted the slaves to count towards their population, but this idea was met with resistance from states without a lot of slaves. In the end this compromise was adopted.
What is the 3?5 Compromise?
According to this amendment, the government is not allowed to inflict cruel or unusual fines or punishment upon people found guilty of a crime.
What is the 8th Amendment?
He was the only president who ignored Washington's precedent of stepping down after his second term and was elected to 4 consecutive terms as President.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?