Civics Unit 7 Study Guide

A system of government where power is located with the independent states and there is little power in the central government.

• Articles of Confederation

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Confederation

Money owed.

• Credit

• Debt

• Loan

• Credit Card

When 2000 Massachusetts farmers rebelled against land forecloses and debt from the revolutionary War; ( It showed that they needed a new and stronger goverment, The Constitution)

• Anti-Federalists

• Shay's Rebellion

• Ratification

• Federalists

the first constitution of the United States, adopted in 1781

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Preamble

• The Bill of Rights

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 where delegates decided to throw out the Articles of Confederation and draft the Constitution.

• Confederation

• Shays’s Rebellion

• Constitutional Convention

• Congress

A group of people in the early United States who opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution because they feared a strong national government and a lack of protection for individual rights.

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Congress

• Senate

A group of people in the early United States who favored the establishment of a strong national government and who worked for ratification of the U.S. Constitution>

• Anti-Federalists

• Congress

• Federalists

• Judicial Branch

The process of formally approving something (like a document).

• Ratification

• Amend

• Vote

• Protest

The first ten amendments added to the Constitution; It gave more rights to the people and gives reserved powers to the states (Note: The states’ rights are not specifically listed here.)

• The Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• confederation

• Preamble

Desired a bill of rights be added to the Constitution to

protect fundamental rights.

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists