This is the year when the Articles of Confederation were written?
What is 1777?
100
This man was the president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
100
This system was created to keep any one branch from gaining too much power.
What is checks and balances?
100
The Bill of Rights were added to the Constitution in this year.
What is 1791?
200
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
200
These were three major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is no strong central government, could not regulate trade, force citizens to join the army, or impose taxes?
200
This was the proposal for a one-house legislature, with one vote for each state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
This branch of government hears cases involving the Constitution, laws passed by Congresses, and disputes between states.
What is the judicial branch?
200
The powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
300
The freeing of an enslaved person.
What is manumission?
300
A law that established a procedure for the surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio River.
What is the Ordinance of 1785?
300
This was the plan for a two-house legislature, a chief executive chosen by the legislature, and a court system.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
These are the qualifications for becoming president.
What is:
-be a citizen of the U.S. by birth
-be at least 35 years old
-be a resident of the U.S. for 14 years
300
Right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
400
The sharing of power between federal and state governments.
What is federalism?
400
1787 angry farmers took up arms against the government. They were revolting against the tyranny of the new government.
What is Shays's Rebellion?
400
This group of people strongly supported the ratification of the Constitution. They also favored a strong central government with fewer powers given to the states. Alexander Hamilton was a member of this school of political thought.
Who were the Federalists?
400
Coin money, issue taxes, declare war, establish post office, and regulate commerce with foreign nations.
What are powers granted to Congress?
400
Rights of accused persons.
What is Fifth Amendment?
500
The proposal of a two house legislature. Representation in one house is based on population, in the other representation is equal.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
Passed in 1787, it created a single Northwest Territory. It included a bill of rights for settlers. It also stated there shall be no slavery in the said territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
This was the only state not to attend the Constitutional Convention.