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Our nation's first president following the passing of the U.S. Constitution.
Who was George Washington?
100
A plan of government
What is a constitution?
100
One of the biggest criticisms about the new Constitution was that it originally did not have this.
What is a Bill of Rights?
100
This is the lawmaking branch of government.
What is the legislative branch?
100
True or False: The Americans were ready to concentrate power in the hands of one ruler
What is False?
200
This philosopher belileved that all people had natural rights
Who was john Locke?
200
This is known as our country's first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
A system that keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power.
What is checks and balances?
200
This branch of government which includes the President, carries out and enforces the laws of the nation.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
What we called those that shaped the Constitution.
Who were the Framers?
300
He led a rebellion against the government.
Who was Daniel Shays?
300
Our nation's first president under the Articles of Confederation.
Who was John Hanson?
300
This proposed legislative plan favored the large states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
The court system is held within this branch of government.
What is the Judicial Branch of government?
300
Those who supported the new Constitution were called this.
What were Federalists?
400
He was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention
Who was George Washington?
400
Congress needed this many states to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation.
What is 9 states?
400
This proposed legislative plan favored the small states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This is one reason Americans were cautious about placing too much power in the hands of a single leader.
What is either a fear of the loss of individual rights or concern over too much power with the government?
400
The sharing and splitting up of powers between federal and state government.
What is federalism?
500
This philosopher proposed that government powers be separate and balanced.
Who was Baron de Montequieu?
500
Another word for a two-house legislature such as what the United States currently has (with a Senate and House of Representatives).
What is bicameral?
500
This law helped to stop the spread of slavery to the West.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
A government system where the citizens rule through elected officials.
What is a republic?
500
Delegates from the different states came together here in order to write a replacement to the Articles of Confederation.
What is Philadelphia's Independence Hall?