Constitution Constitutional Details Revolutionary War Debate and Compromise New Gov’t
-This is the introduction to the Constitution that lists the purposes of government in the United States. Row Question
-Preamble Row Answer
-Article One describes which branch of the government? Row Question
-Legislative Branch Row Answer
-This phrase theoretically allows the government to “stretch” its powers? Row Question
-Necessary and Proper Clause Row Answer
-Article Two describes which branch of the government? Row Question
-Executive Branch Row Answer
-Article Three describes which branch of government? Row Question
-Judicial Branch Row Answer
-Which statement in Article IV of the Constitution says that states will acknowledge the laws of other states and cooperate with one another over fugitives. Row Question
-full faith and credit clause Row Answer
-Name the process of sending fugitives from one state to another for trial? Row Question
-extradition Row Answer
Row Question -Name the statement of Article VI that states the national government is the highest form of government in the nation and that the Constitution is above all forms of government.
-Supremacy Clause Row Answer
Row Question -This is the term for formal approval of the Constitution by the states?
-Ratification Row Answer
-What is the only crime specifically defined by the US Constitution? Row Question
-treason Row Answer
-This was the turning point battle of the Revolutionary war? Row Question
-Saratoga Row Answer
-Who joined the colonial side after the turning point battle? Row Question
-France Row Answer
-Name the place where Washington’s army nearly froze in the winter of ? Row Question
-Valley Forge Row Answer
-Name the British general who surrendered to Washington at the war’s end? Row Question
-Cornwallis Row Answer
-This was the last battle of the war? Row Question
-Yorktown Row Answer
-Where was the Constitutional Convention? Row Question
-Philadelphia Row Answer
-Name the government proposed by James Madison at the Convention and it called for a three branch government with a legislature based on population. Row Question
-Virginia Plan Row Answer
-This is the plan presented by William Patterson that called for a legislature based on state equality and a group executive power. Row Question
-New Jersey Plan Row Answer
-Name the agreement made at the Convention of 1787 that created a two house legislature with one house based on population and the other based on state equality. Row Question
-Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise Row Answer
-Name the compromise that said slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the census to determine the population of each state. Row Question
-3/5 Compromise Row Answer
-The Slave Trade Compromise said that this type of trade would never be taxed? Row Question
-exports Row Answer
Name the political group who supported the passage of the new Constitution and its stronger government. Row Question
-Federalists Row Answer
-What political group opposed the new Constitution and thought it lacked a specific list of people’s rights. Row Question
-Anti-Federalists Row Answer
-These were newspaper articles written in support of the new Constitution? Row Question
-Federalist Papers Row Answer
-This was the set of Amendments that were proposed at the request of Anti-Federalists to guarantee certain basic rights to the people. Row Question
-Bill of Rights Row Answer