Articles of Confederation
This event in which farmer Daniel Shays started a violent uprising is important because it essentially exposed the major flaws of the Articles of Confederation.
Shays' Rebellion
This compromise declared that 3/5 of the slave population could be added to the population of states for the purposes of representation.
3/5 Compromise
The Great Compromise was a compromise of which two plans proposed during the Constitutional Convention?
Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan
The Constitution creates a tricameral federal government. What are the names of these branches of government?
legislative, executive, judicial
These are the five basic freedoms granted to all citizens through the first amendment of the Constitution.
speech, religion, press, assembly, petitioning
Shays' Rebellion ultimately divided Americans into largely two different types of people. What are these types of people called?
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
The Great Compromise created a ____________________ legislative branch. This means that there are two bodies/houses within the legislative branch.
bicameral
The New Jersey Plan proposed that the legislative branch remain _________________.
unicameral
What are the main roles/responsibilities of each branch of the federal government?
legislative: propose/create laws
executive: enforce/execute laws
judicial: interpret laws
The third amendment made what illegal?
quartering
This piece of legislation, passed under the Articles of Confederation, abolished slavery in the Northwest territory and provided an orderly means by which unorganized territories in the west could get themselves a population and apply for statehood in the union.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The two houses of Congress are called the _____________ and the ________________.
Senate, House of Representatives
According to the Virginia Plan, what factor should decide how much representation a state should receive?
Population size
The Constitution created a federalism. What does this mean?
This is a system in which power is shared by both the federal government and state governments.
DAILY DOUBLE
The fifth amendment of the Constitution ensures that nobody every be subject to double jeopardy. What does this mean?
It means that no one will ever be tried in court for the same offense/crime.
DAILY DOUBLE
Write 3 of the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Unicameral body of government. No executive or judicial branch!
No power to levy taxes.
No standing national army.
No power to regulate foreign and interstate commerce.
Each state had only one vote in Congress regardless of size.
Every state had veto power over proposed changes.
Super-majority required to make changes.
This is the set of essays that the Federalists at the Constitutional Convention presented to the Anti-Federalists to ultimately persuade them to approve and sign the newly proposed Constitution which would create a strong central government.
The Federalist Papers
The delegates at the Constitutional Convention introduced the system implemented in America even today to elect the president and vice president. What is it called?
Electoral College
DAILY DOUBLE
This is a clause in the Constitution that states federal laws and the Constitution are the highest laws in the country. Therefore, if there is ever a conflict between federal law and state law, the federal law wins.
Supremacy Clause
According to the Bill of Rights, the police cannot search you or your property unless they have a ______________ or ____________________.
One reason why Daniel Shays was so enraged at the American government is because it threated ______________________ of his home.
Foreclosure
DAILY DOUBLE
These are the three main authors who wrote most of the essays in The Federalist Papers.
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
DAILY DOUBLE
The delegates at the Constitutional Convention decided that House of Representatives should be elected by ______________ while Senators should be elected by _______________.
the people, state legislatures
The legislative branch can choose to impeach a president.
The president (executive branch) can veto a law passed by Congress. Congress can override a president's veto.
Many people argue that the eighth amendment of the Constitution justifies the elimination of the ________________________________.
death penalty