Vocabulary
A period of low economic growth and a rise in unemployment.
What is a depression?
This Federalist supported the Constitution as an excellent plan for government and defended his view in the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
People who opposed the Constitution.
Who were Antifederalists?
This system keeps any branch of government from becoming too too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
A term meaning "right to vote".
What is suffrage?
Increased prices of goods with reduced value of money.
What is inflation?
This historical figure promoted the idea that government should not establish an official church and wrote a Virginia statute calling for separation of church and state.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
People who supported the Constitution.
Who were Federalists?
This branch of government, called Congress, is responsible for proposing and passing laws. It is made up of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
What is the legislative branch?
Delegates from this part of the US wanted enslaved Africans to be counted as part of their state populations.
Who were Southern delegates?
A Revolutionary war veteran, who led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Massachusetts Supreme Court to ensure their property could not be taken during "Shays's Rebellion".
Who was Daniel Shays?
A series of essays that defending the Constitution.
What were the Federalist Papers?
This branch of government includes the president and the departments that help run the government. It makes sure laws are carried out.
What is the executive branch?
This agreement noted that only three-fifths of a state's slave population would count when determining representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Official changes to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
This Antifederalist opposed the Constitution and believed it needed a section guaranteeing individual rights.
Who was George Mason?
What is to protect citizens' individual rights?
This branch of government is made up of the national courts. It is responsible for interpreting laws, punishing criminals, and settling disputes between states.
What is the judicial branch?
This was the year that importing of slaves was required to end in the United States.
What was 1807?
Official approval.
What is ratification?
This Revolutionary war hero was elected president of the Constitutional Convention.
Who was George Washington?
This number of amendments are included in the Bill of Rights.
What are ten?
The idea that political authority is in the hands of the people to support a citizen's right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
What is popular sovereignty?
This it the year the Civil War ended and slavery was officially abolished in the United States.
What was 1865?