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100
This is the number of Senators in the U.S. Congress today.
What is 100?
100
This is the number of states that had to ratify the Articles of Confederation before it became the first Constitution of the United States.
What is 13?
100
This person suggested the Great Compromise.
Who is Roger Sherman?
100
This is the name of the highest, most important court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
This is a period of slow economic activity and increased unemployment.
What is a depression?
200
This is how many members there are today in the U.S. House of representatives.
What is 435?
200
This is the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is Delaware?
200
This person was chosen to preside over the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
200
This is what keeps on branch of government from gaining too much power.
What is checks and balances?
200
This means having a two house legislature.
What is bicameral?
300
This is the number of amendments that have been added to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 27?
300
This is what congress decided to do about the issue of slavery.
What is nothing for 20 years?
300
This person was an Enlightenment thinker who believed that all people are born with Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
300
This is the movement that influenced the Constitution's architects.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
This is a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
400
This is the minimum age a person has to be to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
What is 25?
400
This suggested a two house legislature. One house would have its representatives based on population, and the other would have two from each state.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
This person was the author of the Virginia Plan.
Who is James Madison?
400
This is the reason some men refused to sign the Constitution.
What is it lacked a Bill of Rights?
400
This is what we call it when powers are shared between the federal and state governments?
What is Federalism?
500
This is the number of years of one term for a U.S. Senator.
What is 6 years?
500
This said for every five enslaved persons, you had to count three of them for both taxation and representation.
What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
500
This is a name given to people who supported the Constitution.
What is a Federalist?
500
This branch of government consists of the Supreme Court and all other Federal Courts.
What is the Judicial Branch?
500
This divided lands north of the Ohio River into townships six miles long and six miles wide.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?