Dates Numbers People Places Roots Concepts Applications 100
Dates & Numbers People & Places Roots Concepts Applications $100 $100 $200 $200 $300 $300 $400 $400 $500 $500
Year Constitution Was Written
What is 1787?
Date independence from Great Britain was officially Declared?
What is the th 4 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 st 1 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?
st 1 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 is Federalism?
Not testifying against yourself in court!
What is pleading the th 5 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?
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