TCI Lesson 10 Vocabulary

What were the Articles of Confederation?

• a declaration of rights for the state's to follow

• our nation's first constitution that gave the states the power in government

• a treaty signed at the end of The Revolutionary War by members of Congress

• a document that ended the need for a government in America after The Revolutionary War

What is a constitution?

• a Declaration of Independence

• a plan for a new world order

• an important document found only in America

• a written plan that provides a framework for government

What was the Constitutional Convention?

• a meeting in 1787 in Philadelphia which a new constitution was written

• a meeting to form an army and a government during The Revolutionary War

• a convention to create a treaty to end the French and Indian War

• a convention to stop the British from taxing the colonies

What is the Electoral College?

• a college for electors

• a group that elects the Vice President and President of the US

• a group that secretly ended the British Empire

• a college found in Virginia that only presidents can attend

What does it mean to ratify something?

• an informal method of passing a law

• to refuse to pass a treaty or importand document

• to refuse to pass a law in Congress

• to formally approve a plan or agreement

What is a framework?

• a basic set of ideas to form a larger plan

• a set of laws and rules for everyone

• the structure of a house or building

• an idea for a new government

What is a liberal?

• using a lot of something

• supporting ideas of responsible spending and government

• supporting ideas of freedom, change and progress

• holding traditional values

What was a Federalist?

• supporters of the Articles of Confederation

• a group that refused to change the Constitution

• supporters of a Bill of Rights

• supporters of the new US Constitution

What was an Anti-Federalist?

• a group that fought to pass the US Constitution

• a group that demanded rights of the people be added to the US Constitution

• people that wrote the Federalist papers

• a group that included Alexander Hamilton

What was the three-fifths compromise?

• an agreement that ended the writing of the new US Constitution

• a compromise that counted all persons in the states for the purpose of representation

• an agreement made that stated that enslaved persons be counted as three-fifths of a person

• an agreement that ended slavery in the Northern states