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Constitution
Branches of Government
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Convention
New Government
100
The first state to call for a vote on the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
100
The branch of government which must decide whether laws are working fairly.
What is Judicial?
100
The amendment that protects people's right to have weapons.
What is the second amendment?
100
These many delegates met in Philadelphia to sign the constitution.
What is 55 delegates?
100
These are the advisors of the President.
What is the Cabinet?
200
The Constitution was ratified in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
200
This group of electors vote for the President.
What is the electoral college?
200
This amendment says that people have many other rights not specifically listed in the Constitution.
What is the ninth amendment?
200
The governor who attacked slavery at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
200
A group that tries to elect officials who will support its policies.
What is a political party?
300
The constitution was completed in this year.
What is 1787?
300
The branch of government that makes laws and controls commerce.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
The year the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
What is 1791?
300
This resolved conflicts over representation in the government.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
The first President to live in what is now the White House.
Who is John Adams?
400
The introduction to the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
400
These are changes made to the Constitution.
What is amendments?
400
The amendments that deal with the due process of law.
What is the Fifth through the Eighth Amendments?
400
This compromise was based on the idea of a two-house Congress.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
400
The year the federal government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
What is 1800?
500
A government in which the people choose representatives to run the government.
What is a Republic?
500
Power to enforce laws made by Congress is given to this branch of government.
What is the executive branch.
500
This amendment protects the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right of people to assemble.
What is the First Amendment?
500
The date on which the Great Compromise was reached.
What is July 16, 1787.
500
This president set the two term precedence.
Who is George Washington?