Articles of Confederation Convention Leaders Constitutional Compromises Ratification Bill of Rights
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
The first national government after Independence was governed by this document.
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Who is George Washington?
This first president was also chairman at the Constitutional Convention.
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What are the states?
In a federal system, these share power with the national government.
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Who are the Federalists?
This group supported the proposed Constitution.
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What is the Second Amendment?
This amendment guarantees the right to bear arms.
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Who is THERE WASN’T ONE! [It had no president or single leader.]
The first president under the Articles of Confederation.
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Who is James Madison?
This Founder was called “Father of the Constitution.”
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What is two votes?
Each state gets this many votes in the U.S. Senate.
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Who are the Federalists?
This group wanted a strong national government.
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What is the First Amendment?
Freedom of religion, speech, and the press are protected by this Amendment.
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What are the States?
These had the only power to tax under the Articles of Confederation.
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What is the Virginia Plan?
James Madison’s plan that proposed three equal branches for the federal government.
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What is the Judicial Branch?
The branch of government that interprets the laws.
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Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This group opposed the proposed Constitution.
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Who is James Madison?
This architect of the Constitution also wrote the Bill of Rights.
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What are the states? (There were no national judges).
These had the only power to decide legal cases under the Articles of Confederation?
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Who is James Madison? (the same guy who wrote the Virginia Plan!)
This Framer wrote much of the Bill of Rights.
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What is federal law?
This law is the “supreme law of the land."
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What is a strong national government?
The main reason Anti-Federalists opposed the proposed Constitution.
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What is the Fourth Amendment?
This Amendment guarantees that no search be conducted without a warrant.
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What is a confederation?
A loose collection of states that agree to work together.
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What is Philadelphia?
The Constitutional Convention met in this Pennsylvanian city.
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What is the three-fifths compromise?
In this compromise, enslaved people were not fully counted as people.
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What is the Bill of Rights?
This compromise was proposed by Anti-federalists so they would ratify the Constitution.
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What is the Tenth Amendment?
This amendment says powers not listed in the Constitution are reserved to the states.






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