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European Philosophers
Articles of Confederation
Ordinances
Compromises
100
A set of basic principles and laws that determine the powers and duties of the government.
What is a constitution?
100
He believed that man was naturally good and was corrupted by society. The powerful rich stole the land belonging to everyone and fooled the common people into accepting them as rulers.
Who is Rousseau?
100
This event in particular proved to U.S. citizens that the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised.
What was Shays's Rebellion?
100
It was a blend of the New Jersey and Virginia Plans.
What is the Great Compromise?
200
He was a Revolutionary War veteran who led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Supreme Court in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Who is Daniel Shays?
200
The best form of government was a democracy, in which the legislative, executive, and judicial powers were separate and kept each other in check to prevent any branch from becoming too powerful. The main purpose of government is to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
A group of 55 delegates met in Philadelphia for four months to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
200
There was a division of townships under the Land Ordinance of 1785.
What are 36 square miles divided into 36 lots of 640 acres each?
200
The need for a compromise was apparent between the northern and southern state because this was at risk.
What is unequal power among the states leading to unequal power in the federal government?
300
He was the president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
300
He believed in a limited monarchy and the natural rights of individuals limited the power of the king. The king did not hold absolute power, but acted only to enforce and protect the natural rights of the people.
Who is Locke?
300
There were at least three negative outcomes as a result of having a weak central government. This may be answered twice for the same amount of points as long as the responses are different.
What was debt, inflation, depression, inability to protect citizens from domestic or international threats, states having more power than the central government and not passing laws easily or raising revenue, etc?
300
A territory could apply for statehood under these conditions.
What are a population of 60,000 inhabitants and the drafting a state constitution?
300
Although the Northern states did not want the slave trade continued, they did want the Southern states to remain part of the U.S., so they agreed to allow partial representation of slaves in the South's population counts.
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
400
He was the "father" of the U.S. Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
400
Citizens would give up all their rights, not to a king, but to “the whole community,” and the “sovereign” in this case the people. The people then exercised their “general will” to make laws for the “public good.” The social contract was not a willing agreement like the other philosophers believed.
Who is Rousseau?
400
There are three major weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation. (All responses must be correct and not repetitive.)
What was the inability to levy taxes, inability to form an army or navy, inability to enforce laws, inability to settle court disputes in and between states, inability to pay off domestic and foreign debt, inability to become a strong nation without a president or judicial branch, inability to pass laws with 9/13 states needed to ratify a law, and inability to regulate foreign trade and interstate commerce?
400
Under the Land Ordinance of 1785, one lot was reserved for a particular building, four lots were reserved for a group of people, and the remaining lots were reserved for another group of people.
What are a school building, who are veterans, and who is the public?
400
The Great Compromise included three major provisions.
What was a bicameral legislature, representation based on state populations in the lower house, and equal representation from each state in the upper house?
500
He said that he "smelled a rat" and refused to be a part of the Constitutional Convention for fear the central government would be too powerful like a monarchy.
Who is Patrick Henry?
500
He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land. All political power must reside with the people, exercising their general will. There can be no separation of powers.
Who is Rousseau?
500
There are three major weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation. (All responses must be correct and not repetitive.)
What was the inability to levy taxes, inability to form an army or navy, inability to enforce laws, inability to settle court disputes in and between states, inability to pay off domestic and foreign debt, inability to become a strong nation without a president or judicial branch, inability to pass laws with 9/13 states needed to ratify a law, and inability to regulate foreign trade and interstate commerce?
500
The lands established under the Northwest Territory of the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1787.
What are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin?
500
Under this compromise, the North agreed to allow Congress to tax imports and allow the slave trade to continue until the end of 1807. The South agreed to stay in the Union if Congress did not tax exports and did not immediately ban the slave trade.
What was the Commerce Compromise?