Social Studies STAAR Review

A set of essays written in support of ratification of the Constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• The Federalists Papers

• Popular Sovereignty

• Republicanism

People who argued against the ratification of the Constitution because it weakened state's rights

• Federalist

• Citizens

• Anti-Federalists

• George Mason

The author of the majority of the Federalists Papers

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

Constitutional Provision that ensures no single branch of government has complete authority

• Federalism

• Republicanism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Separation of Power

1786 revolt in Massachusetts that revealed a need for a national army

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Shay's Rebellion

• Intolerable Acts

Freedoms granted to people and protected by the government

• Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

• The Amendments

• Individual Rights

An agreement of governance that created a bond between states for foreign affairs, but could not tax or raise an army

• Articles of Confederation

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Us Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

An agreement between the states that created two houses of Congress based on both state population and equal representation for each state

• Articles of Confederation

• The Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Limited Government

Opening statement of the Constitution that sets its purpose

• The Declaration of Independence

• The US Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Preamble

The name given to the first ten original amendments to the US Constitution that protect individual freedoms

• The Articles of Confederation

• The US Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

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