Under the Articles of Confederation, each state had one vote in Congress. This is the number of states that needed to agree in order to pass or change a law.
What is 9 out of 13 states.
100
This was the set of meetings held in Philadelphia "for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation."
What is the Constitutional Convention?
100
These are TWO examples of individual rights protected by the Bill of Rights.
What is freedom of speech/religion/press? trial by jury? bear arms? protection against unreasonable search & seizure?
100
In the 1780s, people found themselves living in this, a period of time when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises.
What is an economic depression?
200
This is the term for the person who runs the government and sees that the laws are carried out.
What is the executive?
200
The creators of the Articles of Confederation wanted a weak central government for this reason.
What is "they feared a central government that got too strong?" OR "they wanted the states/people to have most of the power?"
200
This is another term for the group of representatives sent from each state to help revise the Articles of Confederation.
What are delegates?
200
Because these were missing in the draft, Antifederalists did not want to ratify the Constitution at first.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
Gouverneur Morris, a representative at the Constitutional Convention, was elected to write up the Constitution's introduction, which is also known as this.
What is the preamble?
300
This farmer led an uprising in Massachusetts that made Congress realize just how weak the Articles of Confederation were.
Who is Daniel Shays?
300
This is an example of a power that Congress had under the Articles of Confederation.
What is make laws/declare war/conduct foreign affairs/coin and borrow money/run a postal service?
300
Edmund Randolph proposed this plan which called for a strong central government and for the number of representatives from each state to be based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay published this series of newspaper essays in support of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
300
The Constitution created three branches of government, which still go by these names to this day.
What are the judicial branch, executive branch, and legislative branch?
400
This group of Americans favored a strong, central government; therefore, they supported the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
400
This is an example of one of the major problems Americans were dealing with under the Articles of Confederation.
What is economic problems/foreign affairs problems/Shay's Rebellion?
400
The New Jersey Plan called for this type of representation from each of the states.
What is equal representation?
400
This was the very first state to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
400
At the Constitutional Convention, Congress agreed to this plan, which said that states would get one additional vote in the House of Representatives for every three slaves.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
500
This delegate from Connecticut was responsible for proposing the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Roger Sherman?
500
Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, rules were set up for creating townships. Within each township, one section was set aside for this type of institution which encouraged democracy.
What are schools?
500
These were the two houses of Congress set up by the Great Compromise.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
500
Without this state's approval, the Constitution might never have been ratified.
What is Virginia?
500
This man is sometimes called "the father of the Bill of Rights."