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Creation of the Constitution
Compromises of the Constitution
Branches of Government
How Laws Are Created
Bill of Rights
100
The U.S. was unhappy with this first plan of government, written after the Revolutionary War.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
When each side in a disagreement gives up some demands to meet somewhere in the middle.
What is a compromise?
100
The number of branches in the U.S. government.
What is three?
100
The name for a proposal for a law. (Hint: "I'm just a ______.")
What is a bill?
100
The number of Constitutional amendments that make up the Bill of Rights.
What is 10?
200
The problem with the Articles of Confederation is that it made the U.S. government this way.
What is "too weak"?
200
It addressed the issue of how many votes each state would have in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
200
It includes the President, and its job is to carry out laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
The number of houses of Congress a bill must pass in order to become a law.
What is two?
200
The five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.
What are speech, religion, the press, assembly, and petition?
300
The city where the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia?
300
The two states that gave their names to plans: one to have one vote per state, another to have votes based on population (the number of people living there).
What are New Jersey and Virginia?
300
It includes the Congress (Senate and House of Representatives), and its job is to create, or write, laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
What it is called if the President refuses to sign and approve a bill.
What is a veto?
300
What the police must get before searching your property, according to the Fourth Amendment.
What is a search warrant?
400
1788
What is the year the Constitutional Convention was held?
400
The Great Compromise was to have this many houses in Congress.
What are two?
400
It includes the Supreme Court, and its job is to interpret laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
400

How much of each house of Congress must vote to override a President's veto?

What is two-thirds?

400
If you are on trial, you have a right to have your guilt decided by this group of people, according to the Sixth Amendment.
What is a jury?
500
The definition of "constitution."
What is "a plan of government"?
500

Each Slave counted as this much of a free person, under a compromise between states with lots of Slaves and states with few Slaves.

What is three-fifths?

500
The name for the system that does not give any branch too much power in the government.
What are "checks and balances"?
500
Whose job it is to make sure, once it is approved, that a law is obeyed.
What is the President, or Executive Branch?
500
The reason why the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution.
What is people's fear that the U.S. government was too strong and could take away all their rights?