The Bill Rights

Citizen who supported the COnstitution were called

Citizens who did not supported the Constitution were called

• Monarchists

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Bill of Rights

Choose the man who was not a Federalist.

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Jay

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

How did the Federalists tried and convinced people the new country needed a strong central government?

• The organized publlic debates on TV.

• They went from town to town talking publicly about their ideas.

• They convince their friends, families, and neighbors and ask them to persuade others.

• They published essays in newspapers. Those essays later were collected in a book.

What were the arguments in favor of the COnstitution, according to the Federalists?

What was the main argument against the Constitution, according to Patrick Henry and George Mason? (Choose two answers)

• States were very different from one another and it was unlikely that rules in the constitution could affect everyone positively.

• The Articles of the Confederation had not been bad at all. THey just needed to be enforced.

• A federal Government would take power away from the States.

• A federal Government would act like a King and take away power from the citizens.

Other Anti-Federalists, such as Thomas Jefferson, believed that...

• The Constitution should have included a certain number of rights so that no one could take those rights away from citizens.

• Each state should have been independent, with no relationship with each other.

• The Constitution could not resolve all of the problems each single State had.

• Independence had been a mistake and they should go back asking the Croen of England to rejoin Great Britain again.

Name the rights that should have been included in the Constitution.

What is a good synonym for ratify?

• Approve

• Cancel

• Choose

• Repel

Which was the first State to Ratify the COnstitution?

• Connecticut

• Delaware

• Georgia

• Massachissets