Government in Colonial America
A type of government when people elect delegates to make laws and run government.
What is representative government?
This document declared that Americans were independent of the British.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is the name of the first government of the United States?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Without doing this, the Constitutional Convention would have fell apart because many different people brought different ideas to the convention and wanted their ideas to win.
What is compromise?
The Constitution needed ____ out of 13 states in order to become the new government.
What is 9 out of 13 states?
When a government's power is not absolute because leaders must follow certain rules and or rights.
What is limited government
A war between the British and the French. The British won and began to tax the colonists to make up for the money spent on the war.
What is the French and Indian War?
These things had more power than the national government under the Articles of Confederation.
What are States?
The first argument of the convention over two plans of government. One plan backed by bigger states wanted representation to be based on population. The other plan, backed by small states, wanted representation to be equal between the states.
What is the Virginia and New Jersey Plan?
This group supported the new Constitution because it created a strong central government that would help to unite and solve the issues within the country.
Who are federalists?
People are born with certain rights simply because they are human beings.
What is natural rights?
During this event colonists protested the British through boarding a British ship and throwing all the tea into the harbor. This event demonstrated how the colonists believed that they should be represented in government in order to be taxed.
Under the Articles of Confederation you needed ___ out of 13 states in order to pass a law.
What is 9 out of 13 states?
The solution to the fight over representation. Created a two chamber legislature in which one was based on population and the other made states equal.
What is the Great Compromise?
This group did not support the new Constitution. They were afraid that a strong central government could take away their rights. They demanded a bill of rights be added.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
The idea that people agree to live under a government together, however they give up some of their freedom to that government.
What is social contract?
This group met after fighting had started in the American Revolution. At first they wanted to stay with the British, however, they eventually made the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
There was no president or court system under the Articles, there was only a ______, in which each state got one vote.
What is Congress?
This compromise ended a feud between northern states and southern states about how slaves would count for representation. They decided that each slave would count for 3/5 a person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This group of essays and papers, primarily written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, were created to convince people to support the new Constitution.
What are the Federalists Papers?
These 3 English documents influenced Americans through creating clear limits on English government and through giving citizens rights.
What is the Magna Carta, Petition of Right and or the English Bill of Rights?
In this section of the Declaration of Independence, Americans declared that they have rights, and that those rights must be respected by government. If not, Americans had the right to make their own government.
What is the section on Human Rights?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress had limited to no power at all. Name one power or thing that the Congress lacked.
What is the power to tax, power to create an army, no president?
This compromise was the solution to a debate over what type of powers Congress could have when it came to commerce and the slave trade. This compromise allowed the slave trade to continue for 20 more years.
What is the Compromise over Commerce/Slave Trade?
Federalists agreed they would add this to the Constitution if Anti-Federalists agreed to ratify the Constitution. This was added to the Constitution in 1791.
What is a bill of rights?