Articles of Confederation
True or false: the Articles of Confederation created a weak national government.
What is true?
This man is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
The Bill of Rights was added to this document.
What is the Constitution?
This branch of government writes new laws.
What is the legislative branch?
What was the power to tax?
This compromise regarding how slaves were counted allowed slavery to continue in the United States.
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?
The Bill of Rights provides a written guarantee of these.
What are individual rights?
This branch of government enforces the law.
What is the executive branch?
This event, led by a Massachusetts farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
This part of the Constitution states the different purposes or goals of government.
What is the preamble?
What is the first amendment?
This person is the head of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
Congress was unable to do this under the Articles of Confederation, which made trade between the states difficult due to a lack of common currency.
What was print money?
This compromise ended the debate about how states should be represented in Congress by creating a bicameral legislature (two houses)
What is the Great Compromise?
The Bill of Rights consists of this many amendments.
What are ten amendments?
This branch of government interprets the law.
What is the judicial branch?
What were the state governments?
The Constitution created this system of government, which is defined by the national and state governments sharing power.
What is a federal system?
The tenth amendment says that all power not given to the national government in the Constitution is reserved for this group.
What are the states or the people?
Each state receives two representatives in this house of Congress.
What is the Senate?