Lesson 1
First government created.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
What was the Virginia Plan?
States the six purposes of the government.
What was the preamble?
The people's right to rule.
What is popular sovereignty?
An influence or effect.
What is impact?
A plan for surveying lands in the West.
What was the Ordinance of 1785?
One house legislative branch with each state getting one vote.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
What were the Articles?
The government can do only what the people allow it to do.
What is limited government?
Meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to an adoption of a new Constitution.
What was the constitutional convention?
The plan for admitting new states to the Union and outlawed slavery in the Northwest.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
Two house legislative branch with a House of Representatives and a Senate.
What was the Great Compromise?
A change to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
Federal government is divided into 3 separate branches.
What is the separation of powers?
A series of essays written to defend the Constitution.
What were the federalist papers?
The rebellion that showed the Articles of Confederation needed to change.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
Someone who supported the new Constitution.
Who were the federalists?
Reading the Constitution word for word.
What is a strict interpretation of the Constitution?
Each branch is given a power to check or limit the other two.
What are checks and balances?
To make sure of; to guarantee
What is ensure?
All 13 states had to vote in order to change a law.
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Someone who was against or didn't support the new Constitution.
Who were the anti-federalists?
Doing something not stated directly in the Constitution.
What is a loose interpretation of the Constitution?
A clause that states that the Constitution and federal laws are the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
To dole out or give as a task.
What is assign?