Confederation to Constitution ~ Chapter Eight

Key NamesKey Terms Articles of Confederation Constitution The Plan Bonus Question: 3000 pts

KEY NAMES: 200  Answer  The 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.  Question  Who were the Founding Fathers 200

KEY NAMES:400  Answer :  The Father of the Constitution.  Question  Who was James Madison? 400

KEY NAMES: 600  Answer  This man led a rebellion/uprising of farmers because of the high taxes the government placed on them.  Question  Who was Daniel Shays? 600

KEY NAMES:  Answer  The author of “Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions” (document by Antifederalist voicing concerns over the new government)  Question  Who was Mercy Otis Warren?

KEY NAMES:  Answer  The three men who wrote The Federalist Papers to try to convince people to support ratification.  Question  Who were James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay?

KEY TERMS: 200  Answer  The people who opposed the ratification of the Constitution.  Question  Who were the Anti-Federalists 200

KEY TERMS: 400  Answer  To impose or raise a tax.  Question  What is levy? 400

KEY TERMS: 600  Answer  The government department that interprets the laws.  Question  What is the Judicial Branch? 600

KEY TERMS: 800  Answer  A country or nation in which the people elect representatives to govern.  Question  What is a Republic? 800

KEY TERMS: 1000  Answer  A system where each branch of government has some control over the other branches.  Question  What is checks and balances? 1000

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: 200  Answer  An armed uprising of farmers who protested unfair taxation.  Question  What was Shay’s Rebellion? 200

 Answer  A plan in which the national government would be run by a legislative body call the Confederation Congress.  Question  What were the Articles of Confederation? 400 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: 400

 Answer  The land west of the Appalachians that was constantly disputed.  Question  What were the Northwest Territories? 600 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: 600

 Answer  This called for surveyors to stake out six mile square plots in western lands? (It was one of the few successes of under the Articles of Confederation)  Question  What was the Land Ordinance of 1785? 800 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: 800

 Answer  The first constitutional document in the United States. It protected freedom of the press and freedom of religion.  Question  What was Virginia’s State Constitution? 1000 ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION: 1000

CONSTITUTION 200  Answer  The 3 branches of government.  Question  What are the legislative, judicial, and executive? 200

CONSTITUTION 400  Answer  A proposal (plan) for a single house congress based on equality, not population.  Question  What was the New Jersey plan? 400

CONSTITUTION 600  Answer  Agreement to count a portion of each state’s slave population toward representation and taxation.  Question  What was the three-fifths compromise? 600

CONSTITUTION 800  Answer  Roger Sherman and the delegates from Connecticut proposed this to appease both the larger and smaller states.  Question  What was the Great Compromise? 800

CONSTITUTION 1000  Answer  James Wilson and James Madison promoted this philosophy of a “government ruled by the people.”  Question  What was Popular Sovereignty? 1000

THE PLAN: 200  Answer  A system of government in which power is shared between the central government and the states.  Question  What was Federalism? 200

THE PLAN: 400  Answer  This many people had to live in an area before it became a state, according to the Northwest Ordinance.  Question  What is 60,000? 400

THE PLAN: 600  Answer  The compromise which guaranteed the inalienable rights of the people. The Antifederalists insisted these be added in order to ratify the Constitution.  Question  What are the Bill of Rights? 600

THE PLAN: 800  Answer  These 3 freedoms are protected by the first amendment.  Question  Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech 800

THE PLAN: 1000  Answer  The government department that enforces the law.  Question  What is the Executive Branch. 1000

BONUS QUESTION: 3000 PTS.  Answer  The last 3 states to ratify the Constitution (in order).  Question  What are New York, North Carolina, & Rhode Island ? 3000