8th Grade Topic 2 A Constitution for the United States

A document that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and process of a government.

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution

• civic virtue

• Federalist Papers

A list of key individual rights and freedoms

• Federalist Papers

• Bill of Rights

• Caucus

• Abolitionist

A revolt in Massachusetts led by farmers in reaction to high taxes.

• Battle of Lexington

• Civil War

• American Revolution

• Shays' Rebellion

A Plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• Three Fifths Compromise

• Constitution

An agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three fifths of the enslaved residents in any state can be counted in its population.

• The Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Constitution

• The Preamble

A British Document that signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the law, and citizens have basic rights.

• Constitution

• Preamble

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

Which French Enlightenment thinker believed in separation of powers?

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Locke

The main difference between Federalists and Antifederalists is that Federalists believed in a ________ federal government.

• strong

• weak

A government that gets its authority from the people.

• liberty

• impeach

• popular sovereignty

• Magna Carta

How many Houses do we have in Congress?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4