Types of Government
This kind of government features a King or Queen with total power.
What is an absolute monarchy?
This document informed King George III why the American colonists wished to leave Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This founding father wrote the Declaration of Independence, and was considered a leader of the Antifederalist movement.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This city was the location of the Constitutional Convention, as well as the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Philadelphia?
In every society, no matter how small or simple, there is this.
What is government?
A government where all the power is in one person's hands.
What is a monarchy? / What is a dictatorship?
This is the original governing document of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The Antifederalists opposed the Constitution because it lacked this.
What is a Bill of Rights?
The lawmaking body of the United States is known as Congress. The lawmaking body of Great Britain is known as this.
What is Parliament?
This kind of state has a powerful federal government, where local governments do not have any authority.
What is a unitary state?
This document is the supreme law of the land, and outlines the powers of the government.
What is the Constitution?
This man oversaw the Constitutional Convention, and played a major role in getting everyone to agree to the final version of the Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
This agreement created a bicameral legislature, with a separate House of Representatives and Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
Because citizens elect representatives and the president, the United States should be considered this kind of government.
What is a republic? / What is a representative democracy?
This form of government comes from a Greek word meaning "rule of the people."
This document lists several rights that all Americans are entitled to. Technically speaking, it is the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
By far the most important person who argued for a Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Considered a leader of the Antifederalists.
Who is George Mason?
Under the Articles of Confederation, this many states needed to ratify the Constitution for it to go into effect.
What are 9 out of 13 states?
The journal of this founding father is the main reason we know so much about what happened at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is James Madison?
This type of state has a division of government, where some powers are at the federal level, and some are at the state level.
What is federalism?
This document, signed in 1215 by King John of England, guaranteed certain rights to British citizens, such as the right to private property and the right to a fair trial.
This founder is sometimes called "the Father of the Constitution," as he had a bigger hand in writing it than anyone else.
Who is James Madison?
The Constitution was ratified in this year.
What is 1787?
The most serious issue at the Constitutional Convention. Large states and small states were deeply divided on it.
What is representation in Congress?