Lesson 1
The Colonists 1st plan of Government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Delegates met here to fix the Articles of Confederation.
What is Philadelphia?
Wanted a strong Central Government vs. letting the States have more power.
What is the Federalists versus the Anti-Federalists?
Government can create taxes or borrow money to help get us out of debt.
What is levy taxes?
All citizens must obey the law, but, are protected from the misuse of power by the government.
What is Rule of Law?
The number of branches that the Articles of Confederation had, the name and the role of the branches.
What is 1 Branch, the Legislative Branch and it would make the laws.
The elected leader of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
This was necessary to be added to the Constitution in order to ratify the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
27
What is the number of Amendments to the Constitution?
Means chaos.
What is anarchy?
What were 2 of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
The states had the most power, government couldn't collect any taxes, people tried to raise prices of items which caused inflation.
Decided to make a new Constitution, with how many Branches that do what?
3 Branches:
Legislative - makes the laws
Executive - enforces the laws
Judicial - makes sure the laws are constitutional
The plan outlined that have laws and citizens elect the representatives to Congress.
What is the Constitutional Republic?
Laws can be made by the Federal or State Governments, but they cannot go against the constitution.
What is the Supreme Law of the Land?
Each branch has a way of limiting the power of the other branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
The event that helped make the government aware of the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Legislative Branch has 2 Houses, the Senate with equal representation and the House of Representatives with representation based on states population.
What is the Great Compromise?
Freedom of religion, speech, the press, the right to own firearms, right to not house soldiers during peacetime, right to prevent unlawful search and seizure.
What are some of the First 10 Amendments or Bill or Rights?
What is Suffrage?
People on both sides of an issue give up something to reach an agreement
What is a compromise?
Americans can move into the Ohio River Valley, the territories can become a state after reaching a population of 60,000 people; Native Americans lost land and could not do anything to prevent it.
What are the results of the New Land Policies of Northwest Ordiance of 1787?
Powers of Government are divided by State, National and Shared Powers; with these powers given to each.
Issue Licenses given to the State, manage elections and organize local government.
Print money, make laws about trade, set up military and set up the postal service is the powers of the National government.
Shared power is the ability to collect taxes, make tax laws and set up courts.
The idea that our government cannot do anything without the people's consent.
What is popular sovereignty?
Ended segregation
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education, the Supreme Court Decision?
Provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare of the people.
What is domestic tranquility?