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This region (recall Lepore) was where the first U.S. government banned slavery.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
This document was the predecessor to the Constitution.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This is the other name for the "necessary and proper" clause.
What is the "elastic" clause?
What is 3/5?
What is Congress?
Name a religious group in the early U.S. that opposed slavery.
Who were the Mennonites or the Quakers?
This is the year that the prior governing body of the United States decided they needed new founding documents.
What is 1787?
This crisis in 1786 was caused in part by problems with debt and taxation in Western Massachusetts
This state did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
What was Rhode Island?
This is how old you have to be to be elected to the House of Representatives.
This early state abolished slavery by 1790.
What is Vermont?
This is what the Constitution provides to prevent only wealthy people from becoming Congressmen.
What is a salary for legislators?
This group in Article I, Section 2 is fully excluded from Census counts.
What is "Indians not taxed?"
This is when the government would be allowed to consider banning the import of slaves, according to the Constitution.
What is 1808?
This is how many years after the Constitutional Convention its proceedings were kept secret.
What is 50 years?
This percent of delegates at the Constitutional Convention were slaveowners.
What is 45%?
This was the initial maximum ratio of people to a representative.
What is 30,000 to 1?
This is the maximum number of years an appropriation of money for the army can cover.
What is two?
This is who initially chose senators for each state.
What was the state legislature?
This man, worried about an "excess of democracy," also has a modern political practice named after him.
Who was Eldridge Gerry?
This key individual right cannot be suspended, according to the Constitution, except in case of rebellion or invasion.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This many delegates signed the document calling for the revision of the United States' founding articles.
These are some of the things that the U.S. Constitution provides Congress with the power to regulate about currency and trade. Name at least three to get points.
What is minting/coining money, regulating its value, standardizing weights and measures, borrow money for the government, lay and collect taxes, pay debts, and more?
What are "The Great Compromise," "The Connecticut Compromise," and the "Sherman Compromise"?
What is 2? (9 versus 7)