This is the system that ensures no branch of government has too much power.
What is checks and balances.
100
This is the part of the Constitution where "We the People" can be found.
What is the Preamble?
100
Daniel Shays' is from this New England state.
What is Massachusetts?
100
The city where the U. S. Constitution was written.
What is Philadelphia?
100
Another name for the First 10 Amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
These official bodies head the Legislative Branch.
What is the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate?
200
This is the place in the country where the phrase was first written.
What is Philadelphia?
200
In this war, Daniel Shays was considered a hero.
What is the American Revolution?
200
This is the idea or plan brought up during the Convention that said both houses would be based on population - it would favor BIG states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
This amendment has the FIVE freedoms listed.
What is the 1st Amendment?
300
The job of the Legislative Branch is to...?
What is create or make the laws.
300
The Founding Fathers decided to use the phrase "We the People" because of this reason...
What is the power of government belongs to the people. Or what is the fact we are a nation built and run by the people...no a single person.
300
This is the reason farmers rebelled.
What is the fact their taxes were raised by the state and/or they were in debt and their farms were being taken.
300
This is the name of the plan that Roger Sherman said everyone has to give a little bit: one house is based on population - the House of Reps, and one house is based on two senators per state - the Senate.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
You don't want to feed, clothe and board a soldier in your home...your house is too small so this amendment (number) protects you.
What is the Third Amendment?
400
This is the job of the judicial branch...
What is to interpret the law?
400
The Preamble consists of this many sentences.
What is one?
400
They needed to be called to put down Shays and the other farmers' rebellion.
What is the state militia?
400
This was a strange compromise between NORTHERN states and SOUTHERN states where for every 5000 slaves they counted 3000 for population in the South.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
400
If you are a law-abiding citizen and want to own a gun, then this amendment protects you right to do so.
What is the Second Amendment?
500
This is the official body of the Executive Branch...
What is the President (and his Cabinet)?
500
This word in the Preamble refers to every legal citizen in the U.S.
What is WE?
500
Shays' Rebellion led to the revision of this document. It would later be thrown out and the U.S. Constitution would be written in its place.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
Small states liked this plan!
What is the New Jersey Plan?
500
These are all five freedoms listed in the First Amendment.
What is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition?