Government
This document establishes the rules of a country.
What is a constitution?
This document weakened the power of the federal government and made state governments more powerful.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This was the first president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
This protest was a result of farmers losing their land due to heavy state taxes and taking their land back by force.
This documents lists the individual rights of citizens of a country, such as "right to bear arms," or, "freedom of religion."W
What is a Bill of Rights?
This plan called for the government to be divided into three separate branches.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This government program involved surveyors exploring and mapping land in a grid system northwest of Appalachian Mountains for the purpose of selling land at $1 per acre.
Double Points: List the years this program took place on.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785 and 1787?
This man was the first treasurer of the United States, considered an economic expert.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
These were three economic problems the United States faced after the Revolutionary War.
What is states not trading with each other? What is states having their own trade rules? What is the federal government not being able to tax states?
This rebellion involved taxes on whiskey prompting angry farmers to start destroying property in Pittsburgh.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Each state has this many seats in the Senate, and each state has this many seats in Congress.
What is two seats in the senate? What is a number of seats in Congress based on population?
This compromise called for African Americans to be treated as less than a full human to prevent them from voting while still letting them be counted for a state's population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This person was the biggest opponent to Alexander Hamilton's economic plan.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is a tax on any imported goods.
What is a tariff?
This man was the one who created the Virginia Plan.
Who is Edmund Randolph?
The Ratification Debate involved all states to agree on this topic.
What is ratifying the US constitution?
These are the three branches of government.
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
Alexander Hamilton's plan to get the United States out of debt involved these three steps.
What is paying back all of our debts, what is creating a national bank, what is taxes on imported goods?
The United States was in debt after the Revolutionary War primarily because of this type of certificate that promised to pay money to other countries.
What is bonds?
This ceremony takes place when a president goes into office.
What is ratification?
The Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution had these three policies/rules in common.
What is state government having some power? What is the federal government being able to make laws? What is Congress being able to declare war?
These are the four secretary departments of the executive branch.
What is treasury, attorney general, state, and war?
Alexander Hamilton believed the constitution should be interpreted this way, whereas Thomas Jefferson argued the constitution should be interpreted this way.
What is a loose interpretation? What is a strict/literal interpretation?
These were the three biggest foreign problems, problems with other countries, the US faced.
What is the US not being taken seriously? What is British soldiers still in the US? What is problems with Spanish colonies?
This group of people were in favor of a strong federal government, versus this other group of people who were in favor of a weak federal government.
What is federalists, and antifederalists?