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the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
100
an idea for a new law?
What is a bill?
100
the first president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
100
the first vice-president of the United States
Who is John Adams?
100
a population count taken every ten years
What is a census?
200
the first government in the United States?
What is "The Articles of Confederation"?
200
the name of the convention that took place in Philadelphia
What is the Constitutional Convention?
200
the name of our new plan of government
What is the Constitution?
200
a type of government in which people elect their representatives
What is a republic?
200
an addition or change to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
the decision to make a two-house Congress
What is "The Great Compromise'?
300
has two members per state
What is the Senate?
300
the number of members is based on the population of the state
What is the House of Representatives?
300
a form of government in which powers are shared between the states and the national government
What is a federal system?
300
the president's closest advisors
What is the Cabinet?
400
the system which in which one branch of the government can keep the other from becoming too strong
What is checks and balances?
400
land ruled by a country, not a state and not represented in Congress
What is a territory?
400
value of money falls because the government prints too much of it
What is inflation?
400
first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
formed because of disagreements between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
What are political parties?
500
the branch of government which makes the laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
500
the branch of government that interprets the laws
What is the Judicial Branch?
500
the branch of government which makes the laws
What is the Legislative Branch?
500
added to the Constitution to protect individual rights of the citizens
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
Thomas Jefferson's followers were known as
What is Democrat-Republicans?