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Preamble
Random Surprise
100
A change or addition to a document.
What is an Amendment?
100
Fix the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Convention's original purpose?
100
Purpose the Constitution.
What is to set up the laws of our new government?
100
Three purposes of the Constitution, according to the Preamble.
Answers vary.
100
Leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
200
The idea that one branch of government keeps another from becoming too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
200
Federalists biggest fear.
What is a weak government that wouldn't work?
200
The introduction that mentions the goals of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
200
Reason the phrase "We the People" is important.
What is "shows the citizens made the government?"
200
Solved the argument about counting slaves as population or not.
What is the 3/5th Compromise?
300
Official member of a convention.
What is a delegate?
300
One of the Convention's three rules.
What are: what we talk about is a secret, each state gets one vote, ect.
300
Solved the argument about how the new Congress would vote.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
Meaning of the phrase "In order to establish a more perfect union."
What is "Make the Country work together"?
300
The three branches of government.
What are Executive, Legislative, and Judicial?
400
Governments sharing power.
What is Federalism?
400
Writer of the Virginia Plan.
Who is James Madison?
400
Only government that is allowed to create schools and set speed limits.
What is State Government?
400
Meaning of the Phrase "Domestic Tranquility."
What is "Peace at home"?
400
Daily Double!
Three differences between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
500
Group that wanted the states to have more power than the central government.
What are Confederationists?
500
Date the Constitution was signed.
What is September 17, 1787?
500
Three things that only the Federal Government can do.
What are declare war, coin money, make peace treaties, ect.
500
Daily Double!
As a group, write the hold preamble, word for word, without help.
500
Group that demanded the Bill of Rights to protect us from the Federal government.
Who are Anti-Federalists?