It was in this year that the Constitution was ratified.
What is 1789?
100
This plan focused on small states, prvoviding each state only recieves one vote in congress
What is the New Jersey Plan?
100
Before a territory could recieve statehood it had to have at least _______ people. (a number)
What is 60,000?
100
The Articles of Confederation were atified in this year
What is 1781?
100
The leader of the Federalists, he was the first secretary of the treasury. Started from the bottom now we here.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
This document governed the United States before the Constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
This plan reflects the idea that a state that has more people should recieve more votes in congress, also that there should be 3 branches of government.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
In the Northwest territories every settler would recieve this that included the right to trial by jury and and freedom of religion
What is a bill of rights?
200
The Articles of Confederation lacked this tye of court system and it led to disputes between the states
What is a federal court system?
200
This leader of the Anti-Federalists believed in the need to restrict the power of government and protection of individual rights.
Who is George Mason?
300
Anti-Federalists opposed ratification of the Constitution because it lacked this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This compromise stated that for every five slaves, three of them could count towards taxation and representation.
What is the 3/5 compromise?
300
the new states in the territories would have the same rights as the original __________
What is the 13 states?
300
These were given too much power under the AOC and it led to its ultimate failure.
What are the states?
300
This man is known as the Father of the Constitution, authored the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
400
Writen in 1620, this document was the first mode of self-government in North America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
It was during this meeting that the founding fathers decided they needed a constitution rather than the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787?
400
This practice of involuntary servitude would be prohibited in the new states
What is slavery?
400
The amount of votes needed under the Articles of Confederation to change them
What is 13? (All of them)
400
Founded Rhode Island, in search of religious freedom
Who is Roger Williams?
500
This document was written in 1215 and was the first document to limit power of the king
What is the Magna Carta?
500
This compromise blended the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan and created the government we have today; the house =representative by numbers and the the senate= each state recieves equal representation regardless of size
What is the Great Compromise?
500
This river valley is the lifeline of the northwest territory
What is the Ohio River Valley?
500
This rebellion, led by unpaid soldiers/farmers, led the United States to see how weak the AOC was; it lacked a taxation system and had difficulty raising an army.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
This man, the Lord of Baltimore, founded Maryland as a refuge for Catholics