This theory is that government is based on the consent of the governed
What is Republicanism?
100
These men preferred a stronger central authority to the federal government.
Who are the Federalists?
100
This legislation established territorial governments in the Great Lakes region and set a pattern for future western development.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
100
These men preferred a direct democracy with a less powerful federal government, instead giving more power on the state level.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
100
This concept was drawn up by Roger Sherman to combine the NJ and VA Plans.
What is the Great Compromise?
200
This concept of creating different branches of government was called by John Adams "mixed government
What is 'separation of powers'?
200
This book spread Republican ideals, and was referred to in times of increased taxation.
What is 'Cato's Letters'?
200
Sam Adams, John Hancock, and Patrick Henry are three notable Federalists or Anti-Federalists?
Anti-Federalists.
200
This was currency created by the Continental Congress to be used as an early form of 'federal' payment during the Revolutionary War?
What are bills of credit?
200
Near coup in January of 1787 when a former Continental officer marched 1,200 men to the Massachusetts federal arsenal, but abandoned the plan in the face of heavy military resistance.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
This principle of government pushed for a strong central authority over a more state-controlled government.
What is federalism?
300
This legislation allowed slave owners to contain a fraction of their slave population for representation in Congress.
What is the three-fifths clause?
300
This political pamphlet was written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
300
This delegation ultimately cast votes for the position of President.
What is the Electoral College?
300
This list of 'natural rights' was eventually added to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This act of willingly freeing slaves was practiced after the Revolutionary War by some southern slaveowners (particularly in Virginia and Maryland.
What is manumit?
400
This plan, unlike the VA Plan, sought to give states identical representation, regardless of population size.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This portion of the US Constitution gives that document legal power over state law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
400
This Revolutionary War battle occurred in New York in 1777 and ended in British surrender of General John Burgoyne's redcoats?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
500
This was a form of payment, usually in gold or silver, paid from farmers to creditors (or typically, not paid).
What is a specie?
500
This bill was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 for the Virginia Legislature, delineating a division between state churches and religious freedom.
What is the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
500
This document was the precursor to the US Constitution, and had many flaws, among it no federal authority to tax.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
500
This series of documents was written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.
What are the Federalist Papers?
500
This plan, created by James Madison, wished to begin a new federal government blueprint, whereby Congressional representation would be dependent on population size.