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Changing the Government
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100
Document created to protect the rights of citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
The incident that convinced people that the Articles of Conferederation was too weak.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
100
The compromise that created two houses of the the legislature.
What was The Great Compromise?
100
Papers published anonymously (without names) to support the Constitution.
What was the Federalist Papers?
100
The branch of government responsible for interpreting the laws?
What is the judicial branch?
200
What the states had to do before the Constitution could be accepted as the government of the United States.
What is ratify?
200
The number of states that had to ratify the Constitution before it could take the place of the Articles of Confederation.
What is nine?
200
The compromise that said only a portion of a state's slaves would count in determining its representation in Congress.
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
200
Leader of the Anti-federalists.
Who was George Mason?
200
Official changes to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
300
Women, African Americans, and Native Americans.
What is Americans who did not have rights in America?
300
The group that thought that the Constitution gave too much power to the central government.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
300
The compromise that created a two-house legislature when the large states and small states could not agree on representation.
What was the Great Compromise?
300
The situation that convinced George Washington the Articles of Confederation were too weak.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
300
The only positive action by the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
400
The idea that each state would have equal representation in Congress.
What was the New Jersey Plan?
400
The leading spokesperson for the Constitution. He anonymously wrote many of the Federalist papers.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
400
Town meetings, published papers and debates.
What is how the people argued about whether to pass the Constitution?
400
Killed in a duel by a presidential candidate for his ideas about government and his support of Thomas Jefferson for president.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
400
Opposed the Constitution because it did not have a section protecting indifivual rights. Name a person.
Who were Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, George Mason or Mercy Otis Warren?
500
The idea that political power belongs to the people. (2 words)
What is popular sovereignty?
500
He became known as the Father of the Constitution for his ideas about government.
Who was James Madison?
500
Checks and balances.
What is the way the government is divided so that no section became too powerful?
500
What part of the American population was against the Constitution?
What were small farmers, poor and debtors.
500
The sharing of power between central and state governments.
What is federalism?