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President of the Constitutional Convention and first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This document outlines our current form of governance and also includes basic rights.
What is the Constitution?
Meeting held in secret to revise AOC and eventually create the Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Had more power under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the state governments?
What is the Election of 1800?
Considered the "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
This document is considered the "first Constitution" of the US.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Event that proved the Articles of Confederation created an ineffective national government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Plan that proposed representation based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Considered one of the only strengths of the AOC.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
George Washington's Secretary of Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What is George Washington's Farewell Address?
Event that proved the Constitution created a strong and effective national government.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This organized series of essays promoted ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Important Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by John Adams. Known for strengthening the Supreme Court.
Who is John Marshall?
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) inspired these two other important foundational documents.
What are the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights?
What two parties existed under the first party system?
What are the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republican party?
Another way of saying a two-house Congress.
What is bicameral?
Veto, impeachment, and judicial review are all examples of this government structure.
What are checks and balances?
These three people wrote the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
This document inspired ideas seen in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
What is the Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom?
What is the XYZ Affair?
Created an indirect way for appointing the president.
What is the electoral college?
Treaty signed between Britain and the US. Americans agreed to pay back debts and Britain would remove troops from Northwest territory.
What is Jay Treaty?