Articles of Confederation
This document was the first plan of government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation
This meeting in 1787 was held to fix the problems of the Articles.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
This was one of the first political parties, led by Alexander Hamilton.
What are the Federalists?
This was the second president of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
The national government could not do this, which made it hard to raise money.
What is collect taxes?
This compromise created a two-house legislature, one with equal representation and the other with proportional representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
This branch of government makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This group believed in strong state governments.
What are Democratic-Republicans?
This event involved France demanding bribes from U.S. diplomats.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This rebellion showed that the government under the Articles was too weak.
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
This compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This branch of government enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
This leader supported farmers and a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These laws limited speech and targeted immigrants.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Under the Articles, each state had this number of votes in Congress.
What is one vote per state?
This plan favored large states by basing representation on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This branch interprets laws.
What is the judicial branch?
This leader supported a strong central government and industry.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
These resolutions argued that states could challenge federal laws.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
This was one strength of the Articles of Confederation.
What is allowed states to maintain power OR helped win the Revolutionary War?
This problem caused disagreements between large and small states.
What is representation in Congress?
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This was the main disagreement between early political parties.
What is the power of the national government vs states?
This was one major challenge Adams faced during his presidency.
What is conflict with France OR political division OR foreign threats?