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Articles of Confederation
Constitution and Bill of Rights
New Government Begins
Mix Match
Vocab
100
The word means money you owe. This was a problem under the Articles of Confederation.
What is debt?
100
This is one of the famous delegates at the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin?
100
To receive the advice of experts, George Washington chose a ____________?
What is a cabinet?
100
This is land that belongs to a government but is not a state
What is territory?
100
This word means a plan for government.
What is constitution?
200
These are three reasons the Articles of Confederation failed.
What are: Congress could not collect taxes, each state had to print its own money, there were no courts.
200
This compromise decided how representatives in Congress should be chosen
What is the Great Compromise?
200
These are two things George Washington did as President.
What is 1. keep the US out of war, 2. pay off debt, 3. establish a national bank, 4. set up a money system.
200
This is another word for "balance of power" in the US Constitution.
What is checks and balances?
200
This is settling of differences when both sides give up something
What is compromise?
300
This was a violent revolt against the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
This compromise was about the problem of how slaves should be represented in government.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
300
This Act made it a crime for anyone to print articles saying bad things about the government.
What is the Sedition Act?
300
This is the first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
this word means to approve
What is ratify?
400
This set of laws created rules for land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
These are the three branches of government
What are legislative, executive, and judicial branch?
400
This is an important reason why Washington D.C. was a good place for the nation's capital.
What is because D.C. is NOT part of any state?
400
This plan, before the Great Compromise, gave more power to the larger states.
What is the Virginia plan?
400
this is the part of government that makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
500
This is how much one square mile cost under the Northwest Ordinance.
What is $640 a square mile.
500
This group was against a strong national government.
What were the Anti-Federalists?
500
This was the political party set up by Thomas Jefferson
What is the Democratic-Republican party?
500
He was Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's Cabinet.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
This is the part of government that settles differences about the meanings of laws.
What is judicial branch?