Unit 6: New Nation Vocabulary + Key Details

What was the first written plan of government for the United States?

• The Federalist Papers

• Constitution

• Northwest Ordinance

• Articles of Confederation

Where was the Constitutional Convention held in 1787?

• New York City

• Philadelphia

• Boston

• Washington D.C.

What was the group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president?

• Congress

• Supreme Court

• Electoral College

• Senate

What was the plan adopted at the Constitutional Convention establishing a two-house Congress?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

What is a republic?

• A country governed by elected representatives

• A formal decision agreed on by a group

• A strong disagreement

• A difference between two statements that cannot both be true

A Constitutional agreement stating how a state's slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

What was the main issue with the Articles of Confederation that led to the creation of the Constitution?

• The need for a stronger central government

• The desire to expand westward

• The issue of slavery

• The need for a common currency

Match the following "Founding Fathers"

• inventor, diplomat, and writer

• 
• main author: Declaration of Independence

• 
• First Secretary of the Treasury

• 
• lost re-election

• 
• "Father of the Consitution"

• 

Match the following

• 2 statements that can't both be true

• contradiction

• approve

• ratify

• formal decision agreed on by a group

• resolution

• structure; a basic set of ideas used to

• dispute

• argument; strong disagreement

• framework

Following the American Revolution, what did state politicians fear about a strong central government?

• states would have too much power

• that the government would become tyrannical and violate the rights people just fought for

• another war would occur between Great Britain and America

• laws would be passed to prevent people from colonizing new territories