HPMS Unit 6: The New Nation Knowt

Congress Can't Control Commerce (or tax)A Weak National Government No Common Currency, One vote per state, Executive and Judicial Branch did not exist

1. What are the five weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? (HINT: CANOE)

The first plan of government where states had most of the power.

2. What are the Articles of Confederation?

A weak national government

3. What type of government did the Articles of Confederation call for?

1.) How to admit new states to the Union 2.) Outlawed slavery in the new territories.

4. What are the two provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

The Articles of Confederation had too many weaknesses

5. Why did founding fathers decide to write a new Constitution?

Republic

6. Is the US a dictatorship, confederation, republic or monarchy?

James Madison

7. Who drafted the Virginia Plan and is known as the "Father of the Constitution"?

To make laws

8. What is the main job of the legislative branch?

National and state governments

9. A federal system divides power between what two parts?

George Mason

10. Who is the primary author of the VA Declaration of Rights?

VA Statute for Religious Freedom

11. What document did Thomas Jefferson author in 1786?

Bill of Rights

12. The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom and the Virginia Declaration of Rights were both models for what document?

"We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union..."

13. What is the famous first line of the Constitution?

The Bill of Rights

14. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?

constitutional

15. The judicial branch makes sure laws are___________________.

Enforces the laws

16. What is the job of the Executive branch?

Makes sure no one branch is too powerful

17. What is the purpose of checks and balances?

Bill of Rights

18. What document did James Madison write?

The Great Compromise

19. Which compromise decided how many votes each state would have in the Senate and the House of Representatives?

Individual rights

20. What type of rights does the Bill of Rights guarantee?

A change to the Constitution

21. What is an amendment?

The first ten amendments

22. What are the Bill of Rights?

Philadelphia 1787

23. Where and when did the Constitutional Convention take place?

9 out of 13

24. How many states had to ratify the Constitution in order for it to become law?

3

25. How many branches of government do we have?

John Adams

26. Which of the five first presidents is not from Virginia?

George Washington

27. Who was President when plans were created for Washington, D.C?

Washington, DC

28. What city did Benjamin Banneker help design?

The Louisiana Purchase

29. How did Thomas Jefferson double the size of the US?

Land bought from France west of Mississippi to Rocky Mountains

30. What was the Louisiana Purchase?

A document warning European nations not to become involved in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

31. What is the Monroe Doctrine?

George Washington

32. Who was President when the federal court system was established?

Thomas Jefferson

33. What President bought Louisiana from France?

James Madison

34. Who was President during the War of 1812?

A two political party system was established.

35. What happened during the John Adams presidency?

James Monroe

36. What President issued a doctrine that warned European nations not to interfere in the Americas?

George Washington

37. Who was President when the Bill of Rights passed?