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Government
Amendments
Terms
Terms 2
Amendments 2 (11-27)
100
National legislative body formed by the Articles of Confederation.
What is Confederation congress?
100
The right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
100
Plan for national government ratified in 1781.
What is the articles of confederation?
100
The ability of each branch of government to exercise checks or controls over the other branches.
What is Checks and balances?
100
Abolished slavery.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
200
Supporter of the ratification of the Constitution.
What is a federalists?
200
The freedom of speech, press, religion.
What is the first amendment?
200
Shays's Rebelion
What is an uprising of Massachusetts farmers who wanted debt relief
200
Act of official confirmation.
What is Ratification?
200
Limit on presidential terms.
What is the twenty-second amendment?
300
Executive, legislative, judicial.
What are the three branches?
300
The right of search and seizure.
What is the fourth amendment?
300
Agreement to establish a two-house national legislator.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
Law that described how the northwest territory would be governed.
What is Northwest territory?
300
18 years old to vote.
What is the twenty-sixth amendment?
400
First ten amendments added to the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
Limits of fines and punishments.
What is the eighth amendment?
400
Proposal for a two-house legislator.
What is The Virginia plan?
400
Lands northwest of the Appalachian Mountains covered by the land ordinance of 1789.
What is Northwest territory?
400
Congressional pay?
What is the twenty-seventh amendment?
500
Ratification essays published in New York news papers.
What is the Federalists papers?
500
Rights of accused persons.
What is the fifth amendment?
500
Agreement that 3/5 of a stat's slave population would count as its population.
What is 3/5 compromise?
500
Meeting in 1787 at which the constitution was created.
What is Constitutional Convention?
500
"Lame duck" sessions.
What is the twentieth amendment?