AOC
What is slavery?
Where the Convention took place.
Where is Philadelphia?
The 2 parts of Congress were established under the Great Compromise.
What are the Senate and the House of Representatives
The electoral college is used to elect this government position.
What is the president?
A series of essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay in support of the ratification of the Constitution by the states.
The Federalist Papers
To approve a document/idea.
What is ratify?
This MA farmer revolt revealed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, especially the national government’s inability to maintain order, collect taxes, and respond effectively to internal (state) conflicts.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This was the most important rule at the convention to ensure delegates could openly discuss their thoughts and ideas for the new government.
What is the rule of secrecy?
It determined that enslaved people would be counted as a fraction of a person when calculating a state’s population for representation and taxation, increasing Southern states’ representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
The Electoral College today is based on 538 votes. This number of votes is needed to win the election.
What is 270?
People who opposed the Constitution feared it gave the national government too much power.
Who are the anti-federalists?
This man was convinced to come out of retirement and served as president of the Constitutional Convention.
The chief executive of a nation.
This type of government had more power under the AOC than before under KGIII.
What are state governments?
Known as the “Father of the Constitution” because he was the most prepared delegate and transcribed the convention.
Who is James Madison?
James Madison's plan of government, in which states got a number of representatives in Congress based on their population.
What is the VA plan?
Your vote goes here when you vote for a candidate from your home state.
What is the Electoral College?
The number of states required for ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What is 9 states?
How people participate in a republic.
What is voting?
This type of decision was needed to change the Articles of Confederation.
What is a unanimous decision?
The representatives from each state with diverse backgrounds and views who met to revise the Articles of Confederation and ultimately wrote a new Constitution are known as this.
What are delegates or Framers?
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.
What is the NJ Plan?
How the number of Electoral College votes for each state is determined.
What are Senators + Representatives in the House?
Supporters of the new Constitution and of a strong national government.
Who are the Federalists?
The 3 branches of the federal government established in the Constitution.
What are the legislative, judicial, and executive branches?
The Articles of Confederation had many limitations for the national government. List two of them.
What is:
1. Cannot collect taxes
2. Cannot enforce federal laws
3. Cannot regulate trade / currency between states
Only 12/13 states sent members to the convention. This state decided not to send delegates because they thought they wouldn't have a say in the new government.
What is Rhode Island?
How representation in the Senate and House of Representatives is determined.
What is the Senate = 2 Senators per state, and the House of Representatives # = based on population?
California has 55 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Break down how this number is reached.
What are 2 senators and 53 members in the House of Representatives?
What the Anti-Federalists wanted included to protect their individual freedoms/liberties from the national government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The months the Constitutional Convention met in 1787.
What is May-September?