Articles of Confederation
Under the Articles, Congress was this kind of one-house legislature.
What is unicameral?
The Constitutional Convention met in this city in 1787.
What is Philadelphia?
He commanded the Continental Army and became the first President.
Who is George Washington?
The first 10 amendments, ratified in 1791, are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Hamilton was born on this small Caribbean island.
What is Nevis?
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
Congress under the Articles had no power to do this to raise money to pay debts.
What is collect taxes
These three words open the Constitution.
What is "We the People"?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence and founded the Democratic-Republican Party.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This amendment banned slavery in the United States in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay wrote these 85 essays defending the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This branch of government interprets the laws.
What is the judicial branch?
How many states had to agree before the Articles could be changed?
What is all 13 (unanimous)?
This plan was based on population and was favored by large states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This scientist and inventor secured an alliance with France during the Revolution.
Who is Ben Franklin?
An amendment must be ratified by this fraction of the states.
What is three-fourths?
Washington appointed Hamilton to be the first to hold this Cabinet job.
What is the Secretary of the Treasury?
This system gives three equal branches ways to limit each other's power.
What is checks and balances?
Only 5 of 13 states showed up to this 1786 meeting in Maryland.
What is the Annapolis Convention?
What is the Virginia Plan?
Based represntation on state population
The "Father of the Constitution," he wrote the Bill of Rights and became the 4th President.
Who is James Madison?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Hamilton and his allies formed this first political party.
What is the Federalist Party?
Court decisions, presidential actions, and customs change the Constitution this way, without changing its words
What is informal amendment?
The Articles had no branch to enforce laws, meaning this branch was missing.
What is the executive branch?
This compromise placated southern states by counting enslaved people as part of a person for population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This 5th President helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is James Monroe?
The only amendment ratified by state conventions, it ended Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
In this deal, Hamilton's debt plan passed and the national capital moved to the Potomac.
What is the Compromise of 1790?
Daniel Shays led this Massachusetts uprising, which showed the Articles were too weak.
What is Shays' Rebellion?