Government Documents
The first form of government in the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The name of the new nation founded post American Revolutionary War
What is the United States of America
The only branch of the Articles of Confederation
What is the Legislative Branch
Plan that favored large states
What is the Virginia Plan
This amendment outlines the freedoms citizens have protected
What is the 1st amendment
Document created to revise the AOC
The number of the original states
What is 13?
The number of votes each state had in congress
what is one vote
Plan that favored small states
What is the New Jersey Plan
This amendment protects soldiers from living in a citizens home
What is the Bill of Rights
Powers of the federal government
What is declare war, appoint military leaders, and make treaties
What did the vote have to be to change the Articles of Confederation
The amount of houses in Congress
What is bicameral (2 houses)
This amendment protects a citizen from speaking against themselves in court
What is the fifth amendment
Created during the Second Constitutional Convention
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Every citizen had _____ rights in each state
What is the same rights
"We the people" is a representation of a specific enlightenment ideal
What is popular sovereignty
This amendment outlines that rights not listed in the U.S. Constitution will be established by the people
What is the 10th amendment
Government document still used today
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The form of government where people have a say in governement
What is democracy
The reason people did not follow the laws
What is Congress was not allowed enforce the laws they created
The three branches of established in the U.S. Constitution
What is the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch
The group who fought for the Bill of Rights
What is the Federalist party