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The first state to become the first colony.
What is New Hampshire?
100
Benjamin Franklin
Who is oldest delegate.
100
The Constitution has three main parts. First is an introduction .
What is the preamble?
100
It is where people run the government.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
Powers that both levels of government carry out enumerated powers. reserved powers
What is concurrent powers?
200
a group of individual state governments that unite for a common purpose
What is the constitution?
200
The plan kept the Confederation’s one-house congress. Each state would have one vote.
What is the New Jersey Plan
200
Rules that set up a government.
What are amendments?
200
The Framers firmly believed that the government should be strong, but not too strong. They therefore included in the Constitution.
What is limited government
200
States that the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government “shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
What is supremacy clause?
300
a document became the first constitution of the United States of America.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
300
It had a president, courts, and a congress with two houses. State population would decide how many representatives were in each house.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
A branch of the federal and state government.
What is the legislative branch?
300
Separated the powers into three branches.
What is Separation of Powers?
300
The main leaders of the Federalists were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. To defend the Constitution, they wrote essays
What is the Federalist Papers?
400
Second Ordinance was passed in 1787.
What is the Northwest Ordinance.
400
Compromise is an agreement between two or more sides. Each side gives up something but gains something else.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
law-enforcing part of government headed by a president and vice president.
What is executive branch?
400
Each branch of government is able to check, or limit, the power of the other two branches in a number of ways.
What is Checks and Balances?
400
They argued that the new Constitution would destroy the liberties won in the American Revolution.
What is Anti-Federalists?
500
1783
when was the Treaty of Paris signed?
500
agreement providing that enslaved persons would count for.
What is Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
Interprets the laws and sees that they are fairly applied.
What is judicial branch?
500
Include regulating trade within state borders, setting up schools, and making rules for marriage and divorce.
What is Reserved powers?
500
This group would select a president and a vice president. It would be made up of electors, or delegates, named by each state legislature.
What is What is Electoral College?