The big states wanted to be represented by _____________ so that they could have more power in Congress.
What is by population?
100
This is the name of the convention where delegates met to discuss a new plan of government:
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
The Constitution created ________ branches of government:
What is three?
100
The introduction of the Constitution is found in the beginning of the document and called this:
What is the Preamble?
200
This is the opening section of the Constitution:
What is the Preamble?
200
The small states wanted to be represented this way in Congress to give them more power:
What is two per state or equally?
200
This is what we call the group of men who helped to form our plan of government:
Who are the Founding Fathers or Framers?
200
This is the branch of government that is where federal laws are carried out:
What is the Executive Branch?
200
These are the "body" or main part of the Constitution:
What are the Articles?
300
These people are the suppoters of the original Constitution (and the federal system):
Who are the Federalists?
300
This is the name of the compromise between the states that figured out how to send representatives to Congress:
What is the Great Compromise?
300
This man became the leader of the Constitutional Convention:
Who is George Washington?
300
This is the name of the city where the Constitutional Convention was held:
What is Philadelphia?
300
These are the famous words that begin the Constitution:
(found in the Preamble)
What is, "We the People"?
400
These are the people who opposed the original Constitution:
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
400
The states were very divided over the issue of slavery, and how the slave population should be represented in Congress. This is the name of the compromise they came up with:
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
400
This is the name of the original document/plan of government that the Founding Fathers thought was problematic and wanted to replace:
What are the Articles of Confederation?
400
This is the branch of government laws are created:
What is the Legislative Branch?
400
These changes come at the end of the Constitution, and focus on individual rights and freedoms:
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
This is the form of government in which power is divided between the federal government and the states:
What is Federalism?
500
As part of the Three-Fifths Compromise, states with slaves would have a penalty of:
What is higher taxes?
500
This is the name of the "new" document that the Founding Fathers wrote. It has been our plan of government ever since!
What is the Constitution?
500
Congress is divided into these two groups or houses:
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
500
In the Constitution, the Articles describe many things. Name one:
What are:
1) Legislative Branch
2) Executive Branch
3) Judicial Branch
4) Power and Limitations of States