A.O.C
This was the first government of the United States.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This law created a system for selling western land.
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
This group supported the Constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
What is the Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the Constitution?
What two successes came out of the Articles of Confederation?
The Land Ordinance of 1785
The NorthWest Ordinance of 1787
This ordinance explained how new states could be admitted.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This compromise created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This group opposed the Constitution.
This amendment protects speech, religion, and press.
What is the First Amendment?
This rebellion showed the national government was too weak?
What was Shays’ Rebellion?
Slavery was banned in this territory.
What was the Northwest Territory
This compromise counted enslaved people as part of the population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Name two Federalist leaders
Who was Alexander Hamilton and James Madison?
This amendment says people have rights not listed.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
Name one major weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the inability to tax / regulate trade / enforce laws / raise an army?
List the 4 Benefits of the Northwest Ordinance
Public School
Banned Slavery
Manifest Destiny
New States(OH, IN, IL, MI)
This principle divides government into three branches.
What is separation of powers?
This series of essays supported ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This amendment reserves powers to the states.
Where did Daniel Shay attempt to raid a Federal Arsenal
Massachusetts
Manifest Destiny is
What is spreading democracy, capitalism, and American culture across the entire North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
This system allows branches to limit each other’s power.
What are checks and balances?
Author of the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
Why was the Bill of Rights added
What is to protect individual freedoms and limit government power?