Constitution

Question 1

Land ordinance of 1785

Answer 1

government’s sale of the land west of the Appalachians, east of the Mississippi, and north of the Ohio River. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the ordinance, created it in the hopes that the land would be divided into ten states.

Question 2

Northwest ordinance 1787

Answer 2

Congress would appoint a territorial governor and judges.
When a territory had 5,000 voting residents, the settlers could write a temporary constitution and elect their own government.
When the total population of a territory reached 60,000 free inhabitants, the settlers could write a state constitution, which had to be approved by Congress before it granted statehood.

Question 3

Republic

Answer 3

Form of government where people elect their representatives to rule their country

Question 4

Shays rebellion

Answer 4

Marched to Springfield to destroy it because bags for closed Daniel Shays have them. He was angry because he for the war for independence.

Question 5

Great compromise

Answer 5

A plan issued by Roger Sherman, it said that States would have representation based on their population in the house of representatives. Each state will have two senators to be in the Senate no matter what the size of the state is

Question 6

Electoral college

Answer 6

body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.

Question 7

Roger Sherman

Answer 7

Helped draft the great compromise

Question 8

Federalist

Answer 8

Agree with constitution

Question 9

Anti federalist

Answer 9

Against the constitution

Question 10

Bill of rights

Answer 10

List of rights that every adult in the United States that is listed as a citizen has

Question 11

James Madison

Answer 11

Founding father in the leading federalist

Question 12

Alexander Hamilton

Answer 12

Secretary of treasury credit with assumption of state debt

Question 13

Federalist papers

Answer 13

Series of essays convincing the anti-federalist why they need to go with the constitution

Question 14

Ratifications

Answer 14

Official approval

Question 15

Weaknesses of the articles of confederation

Answer 15

Nine out of the 13 colonies must agree to pass a law, no president, cannot make treaties or declare war, cannot raise taxes, no cooler, 100% vote to amend an article,One state equals one vote, and there was no tax collect

Question 16

How does checks and balances system function

Answer 16

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Question 17

What major compromises were made at the constitutional convention? What issues did they settle? What issues remained unsettled? How did the federalists of the constitution convince the anti-federalist to ratify it? What amendments were added and why?

Answer 17

The great compromise solve the New Jersey plan and the Virginia plan. This satisfied the Virginia plan by having more representation by the amount of people you had in your state. The satisfy the New Jersey plan because every state had two senators no matter what the population. The 3/5 compromise was also settled by having 3/5 of the states population of slaves count towards the population. And executive branch form of taxation and judicial parts were settled. Slavery however was still unsettled because the Constitution did not mention it at all. It was something that people imagined would fade over time. The federalists convince the anti-federalist to go with the constitution by writing them the Federalist papers. These essays a clue did why a strong central government would work over the articles of confederation. Three of the Bill of Rights amendments were the five freedoms (speech religion press), The right to bear arms, protection against search and seizure

Question 18

3/5 compromise

Answer 18

3/5 of the slaves in each state counted towards their population