Establishing
America’s first Constitution as an independent nation.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This branch makes the laws.
Wat is the Legislative Branch?
The framers designed this system to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This divides the power of the government between the states and the federal government.
What is Federalism?
This branch of the Government interprets the laws for their Constitutionality.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This is why the Articles of Confederation failed.
What is giving individual states too much power?
Quite possibly the most useless amendment for today's world.
What is Amendment three?
This is how the President of the United States is chosen.
What is the Electoral College?
This document sets up the framework of government for the United States of America.
What is The U.S. Constitution?
This amendment protects a persons speech, worship, and assembly.
What is the First Amendment?
This was the greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is a system for establishing new states?
White men who owned land were the ones represented at this.
Americans who were represented as delegates at the Constitutional Convention?
This is the first ten Amendments.
What is The Bill of Rights?
This amendment protects your right to bear arms.
What is the second amendment?
The Preamble to the United States Constitution states
What is the purpose of the Constitution?
George Washington chosen to be the President of the Constitutional Convention because of this.
What is He was known and trusted after leading America in the revolutionary war?
This group wanted individual states to maintain power and believed that a Bill of Rights was needed to protect individual rights.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This is a change to the U.S. Constitution.
What is an Amendment?
this compromise was reached to settle the argument between large and small states concerning fair representation in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The delegates at the Constitutional Convention created a constitution that...
What was created through numerous compromises?
This group believed in a strong central government.
Who were the Federalist?
This branch enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
This is a form of government in which decisions are made by representatives of citizens.
What is a Republic?
This amendment affords the states all other rights not covered by the constitution.
What is the tenth amendment?