Failed Start
The name of the first constitution of the United States that had to be rewritten due to its failed style of governing.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was the new cash crop that was introduced to South Carolina in the early 1800s.
What is Cotton?
The authority of government flows from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
After the Articles of Confederation, this was the name of the new governing document for the United States.
What is the US Constitution?
A governor forces peaceful protesters to leave the state capital while a new law is being passed.
What is the 1st amendment?
This was the name of the failed rebellion that forced the government to adopt a new constitution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This is where the capital was moved to after deciding Charleston was too far away for the Backcountry.
What is Columbia?
Unalienable rights are guaranteed to all citizens in the Preamble and the Bill of Rights
What are Individual Rights?
This is the name for the first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
A judge tries to get Louis to testify about where he was the night of his alleged crime.
What is the 5th amendment?
This is the city where the delegate met to solve the problems of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Pennsylvania?
Rich South Carolina planters wanted them to be counted towards the population but not as property so they could pay lower taxes.
What are Slaves?
Each branch can check the power of the other. These checks keep any one branch from gaining too much power.
This was the compromise for the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan when it came to representation of the government.
What is the Great Compromise?
A sheriff orders all residents in a town to turn in their guns to the police department.
What is the 2nd amendment?
In the new US Constitution, this is how much it was decided that slaves would be counted for population.
What is 3/5ths?
This was the invention that made the cotton a viable cash crop for South Carolina.
What was the Cotton Gin?
Powers of the government are restricted by the Constitution and by the Bill of Rights which protects the rights of the individual against excessive power by the government.
What is Limited Government?
This was the idea that split the government into the Judicial, Executive, and Legislative branches.
What is Three-Branch Government?
A judge sentences Charles to death for stealing Chapstick in a grocery store.
What is the 8th amendment?
This was the number of states needed to ratify a new Constitution.
What is 9?
South Carolina was this out of 13 to ratify the US Constitution.
What is 8?
The Constitution recognizes that the authority of the government comes from “We, the People.” Voters hold the sovereign power but elect representatives to exercise power for them, including the President, Senators and Representatives.
What is Representative Democracy?
He was the main founding father who proposed many of the ideas in the US Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
An officer forces Tara to open her car trunk to search her personal belongings after she was stopped for speeding.
What is the 4th amendment?