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100
The Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise were both disagreements over this.
What is Representation in Congress?
100
Reason that the Articles were intentionally made weak.
What is fear of a strong central government?
100
Small states wanted this type of representation.
What is equal representation?
100
Document written by Thomas Jefferson that was the basis of the 1st Amendment.
What is Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
100
Precedent set by Marbury v. Madison
What is Judicial Review?
200
The Great Compromise settled the representation debate by creating this.
What is a bi-cameral legislature (two houses of Congress)
200
This Ordinance divided up land in the newly acquired territory in the Northwest during the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
200
Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
200
This group demanded the Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution
Who are Anti-Federalists?
200
To prevent one branch of government to gain too much power the framers added this to the constitution.
What is Checks and Balances?
300
The compromise that solved the question of how slaves would be represented.
What is the three-fifths compromise?
300
The Articles couldn't raise money because of this.
What is no power to tax?
300
President of the Convention.
Who is George Washington?
300
Document that outlawed government sanctioned religion.
What is Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
400
Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan had this in common.
What is a proposal for 3 branches of government?
400
The articles only had this branch of government.
What is legislative? (congress)
400
The Constitutional Convention was held in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
400
Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
Who is George Mason?
400
British rule that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
Plan that favored Big States
What is the Virginia Plan?
500
Event that convinced people that the Articles were too weak.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
500
Agreement reached between the states to create two houses of congress. One based on equal representation and the other based on population.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?
500
Opposed the Bill of Rights.
Who are Federalists?
500
Virginia was founded for this purpose.
What is as a business venture?