Articles of Confederation
This document promised states protection, guaranteed liberties, and a “league of friendship.”
What is the Articles of Confederation (Article III)?
This plan called for proportional representation and was supported by large states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
These essays were written to encourage Americans to ratify the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
These are the three branches of government established by the Constitution.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Under the Articles, Congress had this serious financial weakness.
What is the inability to tax citizens?
This plan called for equal representation with one vote per state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Alexander Hamilton argued the Senate should be powerful because the people were this.
What are turbulent and prone to poor judgment?
This branch of government enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The main purpose of the Bill of Rights is to do this.
What is protect civil liberties and rights from government power?
The legislature under the Articles consisted of this type of Congress.
What is a unicameral Congress?
This compromise created a two-house legislature with both equal and proportional representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This group demanded protections for individual rights before ratifying the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Making laws is the main responsibility of this branch.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
True or false: Congress under the Articles could borrow money and create a navy.
What is true?
This agreement counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Brutus Letter No. 1 emphasizes the importance of this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This document created a system of federal courts and a Supreme Court.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This amendment permanently banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This rebellion exposed the weaknesses of the Articles when the national government could not maintain order.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
The Great Compromise resolved this major debate at the Convention.
What is how states would be represented in Congress?
Federalist #51 explains this principle that keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
Unlike the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution allows Congress to do this with the military.
What is raise and pay a national army?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?