Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could make laws but could not do this with laws.
What is enforce laws?
100
The Bill of Rights is the first ten of these in the Constitution.
What are amendments?
100
This branch of government consists of the president and his cabinet.
What is the executive branch?
100
This man was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
100
Washington started a precedent, or tradition, when he said this after he took his oath of office at his inauguration.
What is "so help me God"?
200
Every decision the Congress made under the Articles of Confederation had to be approved by all states, or this.
What is unanimous?
200
The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to limit the government and protect the rights of people. True or false.
What is true?
200
This is the highest court in the country, a part of the judicial branch.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
This man was the first treasurer of the country under George Washington.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
Washington only stayed in office for this number of terms, a precedent that only one president did not follow.
What is two?
300
Under this plan to change the Articles of Confederation, the number of representatives would be based on POPULATION.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
The First Amendment combines five freedoms: right to assemble, right to petition, the freedom of the press, and these two other freedoms.
What is freedom of religion and speech?
300
The legislative branch is composed of these two houses.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
300
Thomas Jefferson started this political party to oppose Hamilton's proposals for a national bank and national tax.
What is the Jeffersonian Republican party?
300
The Judiciary Act of 1789 set up this court system. Another word for national.
What is the federal court system?
400
Under this plan to change the Articles of Confederation, the number of representatives would be equal for every state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
400
This man was the original proponent of the Bill of Rights.
Who is George Mason?
400
This group of people supported the Constitution and wanted to see it passed.
Who are the Federalists?
400
Hamilton proposed this, a tax on imports, to help with the national debt.
What is a tariff?
400
This is the term for the amount of money owed by the nation's government.
What is national debt?
500
This agreement between differing sides led to a two-house legislature with the House of Representatives based on population and the Senate with two members per state.
What is the Great Compromise?
500
These two men thought the Constitution should be approved even without a Bill of Rights.
Who are James Wilson and Alexander Hamilton?
500
The three branches of government have these to make sure that no one branch gets too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
500
This is the word used when something is inconsistent with the Constitution. Jefferson thought Hamilton's proposal for a national bank was this.
What is unconstitutional?
500
This is a term that means shared power between the federal and state governments.