Founding Documents
What was the first governing document of the United States called?
What is The Articles of Confederation?
A 1786 uprising led by farmers that showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The____resolved the issue of slaves being counted in population for purposes of representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Branch which is headed by the president. The president serves a four-year term and may be reelected once. The president carries out laws passed by Congress. Other powers of the president include making treaties and appointing Supreme Court justices.
What is the Executive Branch?
These are the only mammals that can fly.
What are bats?
The right to worship freely, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to assemble, and the right to petition the government.
What is the First Amendment?
A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that resulted in the creation of the United States Constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The____Plan called for representation in the legislature to be based on a state's population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Which branch of government is responsible for making laws? Includes the Congress
What is The Legislative Branch?
Which Halloween candy was originally referred to as “chicken feed?”
What is Candy Corn?
A set of fundamental laws and principles that define the powers and duties of a government and the rights of its citizens
What is the Constitution?
A system where the national government shares power with the state government's is called_____.
What is Federalism?
The____Plan called for each state to have equal representation in the legislature.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The branch includes the Court System?
What is the Judicial Branch?
The most popular halloween costume of 2023?
What is Barbie?
The______could only be changed if all of the states agreed to it (unanimous decision).
What is Articles of Confederation?
The_____wanted the state governments to have more power and feared that the Constitution would create a government that would be too powerful.
What is Anti-Federalists?
In 1787, delegates met at the Constitutional Convention and agreed to replace the Articles.
The __ __resolved the issue of representation of large and small states in the legislative branch.
What is the Great Compromise?
This is made up of electors who cast votes to elect the president and vice president every four years. Each state has as many electors in the ____ ____ as the number of senators and representatives it sends to Congress.
What is the Electoral College?
The name of the villain in the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas”?
What is Oogie Boogie?
This outlines the goals of the Constitution, like establishing justice and ensuring peace within the country? (list the goals of the new government)
What is the Preamble?
This law divided the Northwest Territory into smaller territories, each governed by a territorial governor.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
"Father of the Constitution", He advocated for principles like separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism.
What is James Madison?
Form of government where citizens rule through chosen representatives is called______.
What is a Republic?
The three first names of the Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus?
What is Winifred, Mary, and Sarah?