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US CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS:

Northwest Ordinance Magna Carta English Bill of Rights

Patrick Henry Alexander Hamilton James Madison

1787 Constitution Philadelphia Convention

U.S. Constitution Federalist Papers Bill of Rights

New Jersey Plan Virginia Plan Great Compromise

Three-fifths Compromise Commerce Compromise Legislative Branch

Executive branch Judicial Branch Limited Government

Republicanism (Representative Govt) Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay

Checks and Balances Federalism Separation of Powers

Popular Sovereignty Individual Rights Amendment

Ratification Free Speech Free Press

Federalist Anti-Federalist

Republicanism, popular sovereignty, federalism, limited government, separation of power, checks and balances, individual rights

1. ___________________ a document that defines the government, restrains the powers of government, and guarantees certain rights to the people.

2. ________________ ________________ first document of English rights; trial by jury, could not be deprived of life, liberty and property, signed by King John in 1215.

3. _________________ _______________ proposed a two-house legislature with representation based on population of a state.

4. ________________ __________________ Virginian opposed to British taxation and opponent of the proposed US Constitution because the national government was too powerful.

5. ________________ ____________________ When determining population for representation in the House of Representatives, a slave would only count as 3/5 of a person.

6. ______________________________________ basic law and government of the United States.

7. The Constitution of the United States was based on seven principles, what are they?

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8. ___________________ ____________________ newspaper articles in New York state – explained reasons why people should adopt the new Constitution.

9. __________________ __________________ branch of government that interprets the laws, in the US system this is the Supreme Court.

10. _____________________ __________________a strong supporter of the US constitution, wanted to create a strong national government, 1st Secretary of Treasury, sup porter of free enterprise system.

11. Authors of the Federalist papers:

__________________________ ___________________________ _____________________________

12. ___________________________ proposed a one-house legislature where each state had noe vote and equal representation.

13. _________________ _________________ branch of government responsible for making the laws, in the US system this is Congress.

14. _________________ the US Constitution written at Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, ratification of Constitution and Federalist Papers in 1788.

15. _______________________ ____________________ limits are placed on the powers of government, everyone including authority figures must obey the laws.

16. _______________________ _____________________ the Father of the Constitution, described the events in the Constitutional Convention, also the 4th President of the U.S.

17. ________________________ _________________ known as Connecticut Plan or Sherman Compromise, provided for a two-house legislature with upper house based on equality (2 senators for each state) and lower house based on the population of each state.

18. _____________________ or ____________________ ____________________ power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by those people.

19. _________________________________________________ passed by Parliament in 1689 – English rights reinforced; no taxation, right to petition, individuals rights.

20. ___________________ _________________ national government given the power to regulate foreign trade and trade among the states, states have power to regulate trade within each state.

21. _______________________ ____________________ law passed in 1787 to bring American territories into the United States as states on an equal basis with original 13 states.

22. __________________________ _____________________ 1787, constitutional convention resulting in creating of Federal government (separate executive, judicial and legislative branches), replaced the Articles of Confederation and wrote the US Constitution.

23. __________________________________________ this protected basic rights:

1. Speech, press, religion, assembly, petition

2. Bear arms

3. Quarter soldiers

4. Searches

5. Due Process

6. Fair Trial

7. Trial by Jury (continued next page)

8. Cruel and Unusual Punishment

9. States rights preserved

10. Individual rights not listed.

24. _____________________ __________________branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws, in the US system this is the President.

25. ________________________________ each branch of the government shares its power and checks the other two, prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful.

26. An _______________________________ is a way of changing a constitution, US Constitution requires 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress and approval of states to change it.

27. _____________________________ form of government organized in three branches – a legislative branch (Congress), an executive branch (the President) and a judicial branch (Supreme Court)

28. ___________________________ to give official approval to a document, the Constitution was ratified by the states in 1788.

29. ____________________________________________ rights of the people protected by the Bill of Rights including; economic rights related to property, political rights related to freedom of speech and press, and personal rights like bearing arms and maintaining private residences.

30. _________________________________ 1st Amendment right to speak one’s own mind.

31. ____________________________ opponent of the US Constitution during its ratification.

32. ______________________________distribution of the powers of government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments.

33. __________________________________ all political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government.

34. _________________________ supporter of the US Constitution during its ratification.

35. __________________________ 1st Amendment right, right to state anything in the printed form.

EARLY NATION PERIOD:

Political Party Alexander Hamilton Free Enterprise System

Washington’s Farewell Address 1803 Louisiana Purchase

Marbury V. Madison Judicial review War of 1812

James Monroe Monroe Doctrine Missouri Compromise

Sectionalism

1. _________________________________ 5th president of the United States, remembered chiefly for his foreign policy, especially that the Americas were closed to European colonization.

2. ____________________________________________ last writing by President Washington, warned US against dangers of political parties and “entangling alliances” with foreign nations.

3. _____________________________ power of the US Supreme Court to declare an act of the President, Congress, or a state … unconstitutional.

4. _______________________________ support and loyalty to a certain region of a country, for example, North or South before the Civil War.

5. ____________ the year in which the United States purchased Louisiana from the country of France for 15 million dollars.

6. ____________________________________ conflict between US and Great Britain, major cause was British violations of American neutral rights, main battle at New Orleans in 1815 after war was officially over.

7. _____________________________ strong supporter of the US Constitution, wanted to create a strong national government, 1st Secretary of the Treasury, supporter of free enterprise system.

8. _______________________________ people are free to produce what they can and to buy what they can afford, economic system that began in the U .S. in 1790’s.

9. _____________________________________________ agreement in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, prohibited slavery in Louisiana Purchase north of 36 degrees by 30 North, first sectional issue between North and South.

10. ______________________________ group of people organized together to win elections and govern a state or country.

11. ______________________________________ US would not interfere with colonies under European rule but was opposed to any new European colonies in the Americas.

12. ______________________________ US Supreme Court case in 1803 that gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review.

13. _____________________________________land U.S. gained from France in 1803 for 15 million dollars, included all land drained by Mississippi River and its tributaries.

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