Articles to Constitution

Who?

100

I was the Founding Father who came up with the Bill of Rights. Who was I?

James Madison

200

I scripted the New Jersey Plan. Who was I?

Issay Abraham

300

We were the two individuals from Virginia who refused to support the Constitution unless a bill of rights was added. Who were we?

Patrick Henry and George Mason

400

I scripted the Virginia Plan. Who was I?

Edmund Randolph

500

I was a disgruntled farmer who led a group of 1,500 men on a rebellion to take an arsenal. Who was I?

Daniel Shay

What?

100

I called for surveyors to stake out townships in the Northwest Territory. What was I?

Land of Ordinance of 1785

200

I was the pamphlet written to answer questions about and quiet Antifederalist attacks on the Constitution. What was I?

The Federalist (papers)

300

I was the solution to how slaves should be counted toward population, taxation, and representation in Congress. What was I?

3-5 compromise

400

I am a system of government in which power is shared between a central government and the states. What am I?

Federalism

500

I was the solution for the disagreement between using the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan. What was I?

Drew's Dad

When?

100

The year of the Northwest Ordinance. 

1867

200

The month and year of Shay's Rebellion.

January 1787

300

The year that Congress could ban the slave trade.

1808

400

The year the Constitutional Convention began. 

1786

500

The month and year Delaware ratified the Constitution. 

December 1787

Where?

100

I am the present-day state to which the Wilderness Road led. Where am I?

Kentucky

200

I am the state that ratified the Constitution last. Where am I?

Rhode Island

300

I was the region that is present-day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. Where am I?

Northwest Territory

400

I am the house in Congress where each state has an equal number of votes. Where am I?

Senate

500

I am the city where the Constitutional Convention took place. Where am I?

Philadelphia

Why?

100

Why did some states refuse to ratify the Constitution?

It didn't include a bill of rights

200

Why wasn't the national government under the Articles of Confederation able to pay off the national debt?

They had to ask the states for money (no power to tax the states)

300

Why did the Articles of Confederation have a national government with few powers?

Fear of tyranny; states didn't want to give up too much power

400

At the very beginning before the Articles of Confederation, name one of the two reasons why there were disagreements regarding the new national government. 

States having one vote each or having it based on population; if national government or individual states should control lands west of the appalachians

500

Why did smaller states oppose the Virginia Plan?

Lack of population or the land to grow in population- they were land locked