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This document, adopted in 1776, declared American independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This term describes a written statement outlining the basic laws or principles by which a country is governed.
What is a Constitution?
This plan at the Constitutional Convention favored large states by basing representation on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
his group supported ratifying the new Constitution and wanted a strong national government.
Who are Federalists?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government lacked this power to raise money.
What is the power to tax?
This was the first constitution of the United States, adopted in 1781, that created a weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Articles of Confederation lacked this type of leader to enforce laws.
What is a national executive branch (or President)?
This plan at the Constitutional Convention favored small states by giving each state equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This group opposed the Constitution, fearing it gave too much power to the federal government.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
This aspect of government single-handedly killed the Articles of Confederation
What is a poor economy?
This document, ratified in 1788, created our current system of government with three branches.
What is the Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation also lacked this branch of government to resolve disputes between states.
What is a national judicial branch?
This compromise combined elements of both the Virginia and New Jersey plans, creating our current Congress.
What is the Great Compromise
Anti-Federalists argued that the President created by the Constitution was really just this type of ruler.
What is a king?
Without the Three-Fifths Compromise, these states would have maintained greater political power.
What are the Northern States?
These first ten amendments to the Constitution were ratified in 1791 to protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is what you call a legislature with two chambers, like our current Congress.
What is bicameral?
This 1786 uprising of farmers in Massachusetts showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Federalists argued this type of strong executive was necessary to protect against foreign attacks.
What is a President?
This is the correct chronological order of adoption: Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, and this final document:
What is the Bill of Rights?
Under the Articles, this many states had to agree to make any changes to the government.
What is all 13 states?
This compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Anti-Federalists believed the United States was too large for this type of government to work effectively.
What is a central government?