Bill of Rights
This name is given to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This term describes someone who supported the new Constitution in 1787.
What is a Federalist?
This group opposed the Constitution because it lacked protections for individual rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This president warned against political parties and foreign alliances in his farewell address.
Who is George Washington?
These two groups debated whether the Constitution gave the federal government too much power.
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
This freedom, protected by the First Amendment, allows people to worship freely or not at all.
What is freedom of religion?
This early political party believed in a strong central government and a national bank.
What is the Federalist Party?
Anti-Federalists feared that the US government would fall into this if given too much power.
What is tyranny?
Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion by doing this.
What is sending in federal troops (or leading troops to stop the rebellion)?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a stronger federal government.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This political group refused to ratify the Constitution unless a Bill of Rights was added.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This founding father led the Federalist Party and was the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Anti-Federalists favored stronger governments at this level.
What are state governments?
This Federalist president passed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts.
Who is John Adams?
This compromise was made to gain support for the Constitution by protecting individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Supporters of the Bill of Rights argued it was necessary to protect these from the federal government.
What are individual rights or civil liberties?
Federalists favored an interpretation of the Constitution that gave more power to this.
What is the Federal government?
This early political party was formed by Anti-Federalists and favored farmers and states' rights.
What is the Democratic-Republican Party?
This event during Washington’s presidency tested federal authority when farmers rebelled over a tax.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This principle divides power between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
Opponents of the Bill of Rights believed it was unnecessary because the Constitution already limited this.
What is the power of the federal government?
These three men were the main authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
These three men were key Anti-Federalist leaders.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and George Mason?
This Democratic-Republican president favored agriculture and a limited central government.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The Constitution separates the national government into these 3 branches.
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches?