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Under the Articles of Confederation how many branches of government were there and which one was it?
What is 1; Congress
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Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated over what?
What is how large or small the government should be
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Who were three signers of the Constitutional Convention
What is James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington
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What are the Bill of Rights?
What is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
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The right to vote is called:
What is suffrage
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The Articles of Confederation gave too much power to who or to what?
What is states
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Alexander Hamilton was a ______ Thomas Jefferson was a ________
What is Federalist; Anti-Federalist
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Who were not in attendance at the Consitutional Convention?
What is John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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What is an amendment
What is a change or addition to the Constitution
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In the newly settled Western territories what was an important decision made? This would foreshadow events in history.
What is no slavery was allowed
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At the time of the Articles of Confederation our country had no _________
What is president
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Which group wanted the Bill of Rights included in the Constitution?
What is Anti-Federalists
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What was the Great Compromise?
What is the decision to make 2 houses in the Legislative Branch with equal representation in the Senate and representation based on population in the House
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Amendment 4 states that nobody can unlawfully do a:
What is search and seizure
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When we started to settle land in the West, it was first given to who or to what? (2 things)
What is public schools and veterans
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One of the main problems with the Articles of Confederation was inflation and states tried to solve this by...
What is passing their own taxes
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Anti-Federalists mostly were people from rural or urban areas?
What is rural
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What was the 3/4 Compromise
What is 3/4 of a state's slave population would count when determining representation
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The amendment that relates to no cruel and unusual punishment is"
What is amendment 8
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What trouble did we have with other countries after the Revolutionary War ended
What is Britain refused to leave ports. Britain and Spain stopped trading with us
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What happened during Shay's Rebellion
What is farmers were upset that they paid high taxes. If they couldn't pay they would get sent to jail or would have to sell their land. They revolted and forced the shutdown of the Supreme Court in Massachusetts
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The federalists believed what about a national government:
What is that people could not be trusted and that a strong national government was needed to make sure that a country was run correctly. After the Revolutionary War they knew that there was a lot of debt and tension in the country and they felt that people need to be controlled by the educated and wealthy.
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The sharing of power between a central government and states is called
What is federalism
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Amendment 9 states that:
What is just because these rights are listed in the Constitution doesn't mean that you don't have other rights too
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What percent of people at the Constitutional Convention were in the military? College educated? Wealthy?
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