Lesson 1
The first government of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A convention held in Independence Hall, Philadelphia
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The first part of the Constitution
What is the Preamble?
The first principle of the Constitution
What is Popular Sovereignty?
An influence or effect
What is impact?
A plan for surveying the land in the west
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
A plan that would have a government with two houses based on population of the state
What is the Virginia Plan?
States the branches of the government and what they do
What are the I, II,and III Articles?
Laws apply to everyone including those in power
What is Rule of Law?
An action or a series of actions directed toward a result
What is a process?
A plan for admitting new states into the union, outlawed slavery in the northwest territory
What is The Northwest Ordinance?
A plan to count every 5 slaves as 3 people toward the population count of a state
What is the 3/5s Compromise?
Needs 3/4 of the states
What is ratify the constitution?
Power given to the states and not the federal government
What are Reserved Powers?
To take on or accept a role or responsibility
What is assume?
Needed all 13 states to agree
What is a change to the Constitution?
Someone who supports the new constitution
Who is a Federalist?
Interpreting the constitution word for word
What is a strict interpretation of the Constitution?
What is ensure?
Did not have the power to tax
What is congress?
Leader of the Constitutional Convention
Who was George Washington?
The final part of the constitution
What are the Amendments?
What is Federalism?
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers who did not want to lose their farms because of debt caused by heavy state taxes after the American Revolution
What is Shay's Rebellion?