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- 1. The Northwest Ordinance said that _____ was not allowed anywhere in the Northwest Territory
- 6. The biggest complaint of Antifederalists was that the new Constitution did not include one of these (3)
- 7. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial are the names of the _____ of government
- 9. A Congress with two houses is called this
- 11. This many states needed to approve the Constitution before it became official (spell the number)
- 12. This guy from the Enlightenment said that governments should divide and balance the power of the government
- 15. Madison, Hamilton, and Jay wrote a series of essays called the ______ to influence the public o support the new Constitution (2)
- 17. The name of the plan that said Congress would have one house, and each state would get one vote regardless of population (2)
- 18. In this system, the states share much of their power with the central government
- 19. A nation’s plan of how its government works is called this
- 20. The Constitution is the “supreme and final _______” - meaning that no laws can be passed that go against its ideas
- 22. Each branch of government can “______ and balance” the others to ensure that none are abusing their power
- 23. This enlightenment thinker influenced the framers to think about protecting the people’s natural human rights
- 26. Shay’s ______ signaled a major problem that the central government didn’t have enough power under the Articles of Confederation
- 27. The Constitutional Convention happened during the summer of 17___ (spell out the number) (2)
- 28. A person who opposed the new Constitution
- 30. The branch that is the federal court system and interprets the constitution
- 31. The Articles of Confederation was America’s ______ constitution
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- 2. The name of the plan that said Congress would have two houses, where representation in both would be determined by a state’s population
- 3. He’s known as the “Father of the Constitution” because of the many contributions he made to it
- 4. The biggest problem with the _______ was that it did not give the central government enough power to handle the nation’s problems (3)
- 5. The branch that makes the laws
- 8. Roger Sherman came up with the ________ to solve the arguing between the big and small states (Be sure you know the details of this for the test!) (2)
- 10. The original goal of the Constitutional ______ was to make minor changes to the Articles of Confederation
- 13. In matters of counting slaves for taxation and _______, the Three-Fifths Compromise was reached
- 14. The branch that’s led by the president and enforces the laws
- 16. Immediately after declaring independence in 1776, most Americans preferred a ___ central government
- 21. A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
- 24. A person who supported the new Constitution
- 25. The first ____ amendments make up the Bill of Rights (spell the number)
- 29. The Articles of Confederation would not allow the central government to ____ Americans to raise money