Articles of Confederation
This conflict represented the need to amend the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
`This is the phrase for the separation of powers between the state and federal governments.
What is federalism?
A president is elected via this system.
What is the electoral college?
Following the revolution, this was required in most states to vote, regardless of race.
What is land qualifications?
Founded by the Quakers, this state was known for its religious toleration.
What is Pennsylvania?
This was the one branch of government in the Articles.
What is the legislative branch?
The division of powers and system of accountability between the three branches of government is commonly referred to as this.
What is checks and balances?
This is the more prestigious house of the United States legislature with terms of 6 years.
What is the Senate?
He said "the voice of the people is said to be the voice of God....it is not true in fact."
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
He wanted Massachusetts to be a "city upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
This land ordinance created a grid system that were sold to Americans wanting to settle west.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This is the phrase for a "two house" legislature.
Bicameral legislature.
This Article of the Constitution includes provisions for adding new states to the Union.
Article IV (4)
This decree encouraged enslaved men in Virginia to fight for the British in return for their eventual freedom.
What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?
This was the name of the body of people who first called for "no taxation without representation."
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
This was the most significant (and hypocritical) part of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
They outlawed the expansion of slavery in the new states.
A president has the power to do this to a law passed by Congress (assuming they do not like it!)
What is a veto?
Supreme Court justices are appointed by __________, approved by ______________, and serve terms of this many years.
President; Senate; for life!
This was the term referring to American women raising good future politicians.
What is Republican Motherhood?
These were the boundaries ceded to the United States following the signing of the Treaty of Paris 1783.
What is all land east of the Mississippi River, north of the Gulf of Mexico, and below the border of Canada.
Under the Articles of Confederation, how many states needed to agree to a law or change in order for it to go into effect?
All of them!
Reserved powers
What three things are considered the "Supreme Law of the Land?"
The Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties entered into by the United States (LAWS not MEN!)
This was the first state to outlaw slavery in their Constitution.
What is Vermont?
Put these events in chronological order:
Declaratory Act
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Molasses Act
Peace of Paris 1763
House of Burgesses
Albany Plan of Union
Pontiac's Rebellion
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
House of Burgesses
Albany Plan of Union
Peace of Paris 1763
Pontiac's Rebellion
Molasses Act
Declaratory Act
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Signing of Declaration of Independence