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Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Debating the Constitution
The Bill of Rights
Congress Under the Articles
100
Document stating the rules under which a government will operate
What is a Constitution
100
How many delegates took part in the Constitutional Convention?
What is 55
100
Define the word ratify.
What is to approve
100
What freedoms does the First Amendment grant?
What is freedoms of religion, press, and speech.
100
How many states had to approve the Constitution before it could go into effect?
What is 9
200
Which state was first to include freedom of religion in a Bill of Rights?
What is Virginia
200
Name the 3 branches of government?
What is legislative, executive, and judicial.
200
Which state was first to ratify the Constitution?
What is Delaware
200
Citizens of the United States are protected from unreasonable searches of their home and seizures of their property. These rights were granted through which Amendment?
What is the fourth
200
Which state was last to ratify the Constitution?
What is Rhode Island
300
This was a system devised by Congress for land sales and settlement in the west.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785
300
Who believed people should be a part of the selection process when it came to choosing members of Congress?
What is James Wilson
300
What is the name of the 85 newspaper essays in support of the Constitution?
What is Federalists Papers
300
What name is often given to the delegates of the Constitutional Convention?
What is framers.
300
What is the name of the upper and lower houses of Congress created by the Virginia Plan?
What is the Senate and House of Representatives
400
List the three step process for admitting new states
a. In a new territory Congress appointed a governor, secretary and 3 judges b. When a territory had 5000 free men, they could elect a legislature c. When free population reached 60,000, the territory could become a state.
400
What is a major difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution?
What is the Constitution receives its' power from the people and the Articles derived its' power from the states'
400
Name the three men who published the Federalists Papers.
What is James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.
400
What kind of rights does the Ninth and Tenth Amendments grant?
What is the right to limit the federal government to those granted in the Constitution.
400
Who served as a states' executive under the Articles of Confederation?
What is the governor
500
Name the 5 States that were created from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
What is Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
500
To please smaller states, the _______ would have _______ seats/votes per state.
What is Senate, two.
500
Name three reasons the anti-federalists opposed the new Constitution.
What is it would weaken the states, it had no bill of rights, and the President could become a king.
500
What right does the Third Amendment in the U.S. Constitution grant to its' citizens?
What is it bars Congress from forcing citizens to keep troops in their homes
500
Name 5 powers Congress had control of under the Articles.
What is they could make laws, declare war, coin or borrow money, run a postal service, and deal with foreign nations and Native Americans outside of the 13 states.