Unit 3: The End of the Beginning -- Articles to Constitution

Question 1

What were the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 1

The US national government from 1781 to 1789

Question 2

What were the men who represented their states called?

Answer 2

Representatives Delegates

Question 3

The name of the event that made Americans be like Wow The Articles suck. We need a new Constitution was the __________________ Rebellion

Answer 3

Shays

Question 4

What were the two MAIN questions those making the Constitution had to answer?

Answer 4

How many votes will each state get? Should we count slaves as citizens?

Question 5

The N_____ J______ Plan suggested that each state only get 1 vote

Answer 5

New Jersey

Question 6

The V________ Plan suggested that each state get as many votes as the people who lived in that state

Answer 6

Virginia

Question 7

The C________ compromise suggested that we have an upper House of the Senate where votes are equal like the New Jersey Plan and a lower House of Representatives where votes are based on population like the Virginia Plan

Answer 7

Connecticut

Question 8

What is a legislature?

Answer 8

A group of people that make laws

Question 9

What is politics?

Answer 9

How humans make collective decisions

Question 10

What is the economy?

Answer 10

The art of making the most out of life

Question 11

What is the basic assumption of economics?

Answer 11

That everyone will try to make themselves the most well off as possible

Question 12

What were the Federalist Papers?

Answer 12

A series of 85 articles of pro Constitution propaganda for the New York Newspapers written from 1787 to 1788

Question 13

What is the Constitution?

Answer 13

The Rulebook for how the US makes decisions the highest law in the US since 1789

Question 14

What is the executive branch?

Answer 14

The one who executes and enforces the laws

Question 15

What is the judicial branch?

Answer 15

A system of judges who interpret the laws Their word is the final say on how a law is interpreted

Question 16

Who is James Madison?

Answer 16

Considered the Father of the Constitution

Question 17

Who wrote the Federalist Papers?

Answer 17

Alexander Hamilton 51 James Madison 29 John Jay 5

Question 18

Under what fake name were the Federalist Papers written?

Answer 18

Publius the names of those who wrote the Federalist Papers was actually a secret

Question 19

What was the 35 or the Pennsylvania Compromise?

Answer 19

A compromise so that 3 slaves out of 5 counted for BOTH national taxes and national representation

Question 20

What is judicial review?

Answer 20

Where actions by the President or Congress are reviewed by the Supreme Court Actions considered unconstitutional are considered to be null and void

Question 21

Who was the President of the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 21

George Washington

Question 22

What was the Bill of Rights?

Answer 22

The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing a series of basic rights a compromise to get the Anti Federalists to agree to the Constitution

Question 23

Federalist

Answer 23

Someone who supports the new Constitution

Question 24

Anti-Federalist

Answer 24

Someone who is against the new Constitution

Question 25

Ratify

Answer 25

To approve

Question 26

Taxation

Answer 26

monies citizens have to pay to help the government run

Question 27

Bicameral

Answer 27

A legislature with two houses

Question 28

unicameral

Answer 28

a legislature which consists of one house.

Question 29

Constitutional Convention

Answer 29

The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution.