The Articles
This was America's first government after independence.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This 1785 law created a system for surveying and dividing western land.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This meeting took place in 1787 to address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The Constitution created this many branches of government.
What are three?
These people supported the Constitution and wanted a stronger national government.
What are the Federalists?
Under the Articles, each state had this many votes in Congress, regardless of population or size.
What is one vote?
This 1787 law created a process for territories to become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This plan favored large states because representation would be based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The principle that divides government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches is called this.
What is the separation of powers?
These people opposed the Constitution because they feared the national government would become too powerful.
The national government under the Articles had this major financial weakness: it could not do this.
What is tax?
The Northwest Ordinance guaranteed these rights, including freedom of religion and this legal protection.
What is trial by jury?
This plan favored small states because every state would receive equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This principle means that each branch of government can limit the power of the other branches.
What is checks and balances?
This document was added to the Constitution to ensure the rights of the people.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Articles created only this branch of government.
What is legislative?
The Northwest Ordinance banned this institution in the Northwest Territory.
What is slavery?
This compromise created a two-house legislature with population-based representation in one house and equal representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise?
This principle means that power is shared between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
The Constitution required approval from this many of the 13 states before it could become the law of the United States.
What is 9?
Name TWO major powers the national government did have under the Articles.
What are declaring war, making treaties, and managing western lands?
Britain and Spain both caused problems for the new United States. Name ONE way either country challenged the U.S.
What is Britain keeping troops in western forts, Britain restricting American trade, Spain limiting access to the Mississippi River, or Spain limiting access to New Orleans?
This controversial compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
"We the people" points to this key principle of the Constitution
The right to due process in the courts is which amendment?
What is the fifth?