Articles of Confederation
This governing document created a weak national government because Americans feared a strong central authority.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This compromise decided how enslaved people would be counted for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
He served as president of the Constitutional Convention
Who is George Washington?
The branch of government led by the President.
What is the executive branch?
This group supported ratifying the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
Under this system, each state had this many votes in Congress.
What is one vote?
This compromise settled the issue of representation between large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
This state did NOT send delegates to the Convention.
What is Rhode Island?
This principle means power is shared between state and federal governments.
What is federalism?
This group feared a strong central government.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Under the Articles, this number of states was required to approve a law.
What is nine states?
One effect of the Three-Fifths Compromise was that these states gained more representation.
What are slave states? (or Southern States)
The governing document created during this meeting.
What is the United States Constitution?
The branch that interprets laws and can declare laws unconstitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
This document was added to protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A major weakness of the Articles was that Congress could not do this.
What is tax the states? (or: raise money)
Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan were combined into a compromise to create...
What is the Great Compromise?
An example of the unwritten constitution.
What is the president’s cabinet, congressional committees, Judicial Review, or political parties
The branch of government that makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
These writings were published to encourage ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Changing the Articles required approval from this many states.
What is all thirteen states?
This issue caused major debate during the Convention and led to multiple compromises.
What is representation?
The main goal of the Constitution’s writers.
What is strengthening the central government?
This clause allows Congress to make laws “necessary and proper.”
What is the elastic clause?
The main Anti-Federalist concern about the Constitution.
What is the protection of individual rights?