Ratification and the Bill of Rights (USHA)

The national government has more power now than it did under the Articles of Confederation.

• true

• false

_________ is the act of formally approving something or making it valid.

• conceptualization

• ratification

• customization

• opposition

Name given to those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution.

• Nativists

• anti-Federalists

• Federalists

• Conservatives

Reasonable suspicion that a search is necessary to solve a crime.

• probable cause

• bail

• federalism

• rule of law

System of government in which power is shared by national and state governments.

• district

• republic

• provincial

• federal

Federalists believed that Congress could have a standing army even during times of peace.

• true

• false

Who authored the Federalist Papers? Click the THREE that apply.

• John Jay

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

Who was the man behind the Bill of Rights?

• George Washington

• James Madison

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

_______ of the thirteen states had to approve the Constitution for it to become law.

• seven

• nine

• ten

• thirteen

The U.S. Constitution was ratified in ____________.

• 1776

• 1778

• 1782

• 1785