New
Government
Debate and
War
100
200
First Gov’t Independence
500
-Where was the Constitutional
Convention?
Row 1---100 Question
-Philadelphia
Row 1---100 Answer
-Name the government proposed by James Madison at the Convention and it called for a three branch government with a legislature based on population.
Row 1---200 Question
-Virginia Plan
Row 1---200 Answer
-This is the plan presented by
William Patterson that called for a legislature based on state equality and a group executive power.
Row 1---300 Question
-New Jersey Plan
Row 1---300 Answer
-Name the agreement made at the Convention of 1787 that created a two house legislature with one house based on population and the other based on state equality.
Row 1---400 Question
-Great Compromise or Connecticut
Compromise
Row 1---400 Answer
-Name the compromise that said slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the census to determine the population of each state.
Row 1---500 Question
-3/5 Compromise
Row 1---500 Answer
-The Slave Trade Compromise said that this type of trade would never be taxed?
Row 2---100 Question
-exports
Row 2---100 Answer
-Name the political group who supported the passage of the new Constitution and its stronger government.
Row 2---200 Question
-Federalists
Row 2---200 Answer
-What political group opposed the new Constitution and thought it lacked a specific list of people’s rights.
Row 2---300 Question
-Anti-Federalists
Row 2---300 Answer
-These were newspaper articles written in support of the new Constitution?
Row 2---400 Question
-Federalist Papers
Row 2---400 Answer
-This was the set of
Amendments that were proposed at the request of
Anti-Federalists to guarantee certain basic rights to the people.
Row 2---500 Question
-Bill of Rights
Row 2---500 Answer
-This was the turning point battle of the Revolutionary war?
Row 3---100 Question
-Saratoga
Row 3---100 Answer
-Who joined the colonial side after the turning point battle?
Row 3---200 Question
-France
Row 3---200 Answer
-Name the place where
Washington’s army nearly froze in the winter of 1777-
1778?
Row 3---300 Question
-Valley Forge
Row 3---300 Answer
-Name the British general who surrendered to Washington at the war’s end?
Row 3---400 Question
-Cornwallis
Row 3---400 Answer
-This was the last battle of the war?
Row 3---500 Question
-Yorktown
Row 3---500 Answer
-Name the first national government of the nation?
Row 4---100 Question
-Articles of
Confederation
Row 4---100 Answer
-How many votes did each state cast?
Row 4---200 Question
-one
Row 4---200 Answer
-Name the law that created an efficient system of selling new lands in the west to settlers?
Row 4---300 Question
-Land Ordinance of
1785
Row 4---300 Answer
-Name the law that created the process of statehood?
Row 4---400 Question
-NW Ordinance of
1787
Row 4---400 Answer
-Name the rebellion over taxation that occurred in 1786 that led to a convention of states?
Row 4---500 Question
-Shay’s Rebellion
Row 4---500 Answer
-Who was asked to write the main portion of the
Declaration?
Row 5---100 Question
-Thomas Jefferson
Row 5---100 Answer
-When was the Declaration finally issued?
Row 5---200 Question
-July 4 1776
Row 5---200 Answer
-What philosopher’s ideas are very prominent in the
Declaration?
Row 5---300 Question
-John Locke
Row 5---300 Answer
-The main body of the
Declaration contains a list of grievances against whom?
Row 5---400 Question
-King George
Row 5---400 Answer
-Loyalists were also known as?
Row 5---500 Question
-Tories
Row 5---500 Answer