Articles of Confederation
What was the Articles of Confederation?
The first Constitution of the United States.
What was the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
The coming together of the state leaders (excluding Rhode Island) where they would revise the Constitution.
What was Federalism?
People who supported a strong federal government.
What was Anti-Federalism?
People who supported strong state power.
Did it support the states, the federal government, or both?
The Articles of Confederation supported the states.
What did the Bill of Rights do?
Let people have individual rights and limited government power.
What major decision made in the Constitutional Convention do we still find today?
The Congress.
What was an economic issue with the Articles of Confederation?
The federal government could not force taxes on the states, leaving them poor.
Which side wanted to add the Bill of Rights?
Anti-Federalists.
What compromises were made?
Congress, 3/5ths Compromise, Fugitive Slave law.
What event highlighted the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Shays Rebellion.
Who wrote the Bill of Rights?
James Maddison.
Hamilton at the Constitutional Convention! /ref
This is an extra question, no points will be lost.
I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!
Name a Federalist.
Name an Anti-Federalist.
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Patrick Henry.
What was the National Court like with the Articles of Confederation?
Trick question, there was no National Court.
What is one of the amendments?
Freedom of speech.
Bearing arms.
Protection from cruel punishment.
Fair trials.
Protection from unreasonable searches.
Freedom of religeon.
Protection of private property.
Putting people in court.
Who was at the Constitutional Convention? (Excluding Alexander Hamilton and George Washington.)
Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Edmund Jennings Randolph, Oliver Ellsworth, Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney, Jonathan Dayton, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Rutledge, James Wilson, George Wythe, John Dickinson, Robert Morris, William Paterson, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Rufus King, John Blair