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Dates &Numbers
People &Places
Roots Concepts Applications
Year Constitution
Was Written
What is 1787?
Date independence from
Great Britain was officially
Declared?
What is the
4th of July, 1776?
Number of slaves
That equaled one man when counting
population for congressmen!
What is 3/5?
Number of senators
From each state in US Senate!
What is 2?
Number of slave and free states in 1820?”
What is an
equal number
Or 11?
The city where both the Declaration and Constitution were
written!
What is
Philadelphia ?
Supporters
Of a Strong National
Government
What are The Federalists?
Main Writer of the
Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Anti-Federalist who did more to strengthen the
role of
The President while in office!
Who is
Thomas Jefferson?
States that share names with suggested plans of government during Constitutional
Convention!
What are the Virginia
And New Jersey Plans?
The 2 documents from
England that influenced
our political system!
What is
The 1215 Magna Carta
and the
1689 English
Bill of Rights?
What was our
1st Constitution
as a nation –
that gave each state an equal vote?
What is the
Articles of Confederation?
First document that gave Americans the
right to rule themselves and put them on the road to self-government!
What is
The
Mayflower Compact?
1st representative assembly in America – set us on the road to a
representative government!
What is
The Virginia House
Of Burgesses?
Document that ensures people have freedoms – to worship, to criticize orally and in writing, to
be treated fairly and equally under the law!
What is the
Bill of Rights?
Citizens have the final authority and power in
government!
What is
Popular sovereignty?
Congress makes the law; the President
executes the law; the Supreme Court
interprets the law!
What is
Are separation of powers?
The President issues an executive order that sends American troops to war;
Congress issues the funds to support the troops and has the power to declare
war!
What are
Checks and balances?
The citizens of a nation or state elect people to serve
as the major decision makers in government!
What is
Representative government or republicanism?
Division of governmental power
and authority between the national and state
governments!
What isFederalism?
Not testifying against yourself in
court!
What is pleading the
5th Amendment?
Henry David Thoreau
Refuses to pay taxes on the grounds that the
US government supports slavery!
What is civil disobedience?
After a series of compromises, congressmen decide to allow popular sovereignty to decide
whether or not to allow slavery in new states in 1854!
What is the
Kansas Nebraska Act?
William Lloyd Garrison publishes “The
Liberator” which openly criticizes the
government’s approval of slavery and exercises his
right to?
What is
Freedom of the press
In the
First Amendment?
A student tells a teacher of his or her
religious faith; a teacher does not tell a student of his or her
religious faith!
What is the free exercise and
establishment clause of religion in First
Amendment?
