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Vocabulary
100
Articles of Confederation
What is the U.S's first government
100
The meeting of delegates to resolve problems with the constitution
What is the Constitutional Convention
100
The intro to the Constitution
What is the Preamble
100
Powers or the Federal government
What are Enumerated powers
100
a detailed, written plan for government
What is Constitution
200
The law that set up surveying western land
What is the Ordinance on 1785
200
Population based Congress
What is the Virginia Plan
200
The part of the Constitution that explains how the government works
What is the Articles
200
a legislature consisting of two parts, or houses
What is bicameral
300
To get states in the Union
What is the Northwest Ordinance
300
Plan to count slaves
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
300
Changes to the Constitution
What is ammendment
300
Powers shared between states and national governments
What is concurrent powers
300
regardless or in spite of
What is despite
400
A rebellion that made people believe the Federal Government was to small
What is Shay's rebellion
400
How to elect the president
What is the Electoral College
400
The amount of amendments there are today
What is 27
400
the clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes federal laws prevail over state laws when there is a conflict
What is Supremacy clause
400
meeting of state delegates in 1787 leading to adoption of a new Constitution
What is Constitutional Convention
500
The amount of states that voted for the Articles
What is 13
500
The state that did not attend the Constitutional Convention
What is Rhode Island
500
How to amend the Constitution formally
What is Article 5
500
What is popular sovereignty, limited government, the rule of law, separation of powers,checks and balances, and federalism
What is the principles of the Constitution
500
a form of government in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the states
What is federalism