4. Articles of Confederation

NAME______Critical Period Study Guide (Constitution) Text pg. 192-25 Engaged citizens understand the workings of government and use historical precedents in shaping thought and action

Essential Question: How was the United States’ government created, structured, maintained, and changed? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a federal system? What is the process in using the governmental system to effect needed change?

Text Connection Class Connection

1. constitution

2. Democracy

3. Republic

4. Articles of Confederation

5. Northwest Territory

6. Land Ordinance of 1785

7. Northwest Ordinance of 1787

8. Robert Morris

9. John Adams

10. John Jay

11. Economic depression

12. Daniel Shays

13. Shays’ Rebellion

14. Constitutional Convention

15. James Madison

16. Alexander Hamilton

17. Virginia Plan 18. New Jersey Plan

19. Great Compromise

20. Three-Fifths Compromise

21. E pluribus unum

22. Federalism

23. Preamble

24. Legislative Branch

25. Congress

26. House of Representatives

27. Senate

28. Executive Branch

29. Electoral College

30. Judicial Branch

31. Checks and Balances

32. Judiciary Act (1789)

33. Marbury v. Madison (1803)

34. Federalists

35. Antifederalists

36. Bill of Rights

37. Second Amendment

38. Third Amendment

39. Fifth Amendment

40. Eighth Amendment 41. Tenth Amendment

42. 13th Amendment

43. 15th Amendment

44. 16th Amendment

45. 17th Amendment

46. 18th/21st Amendment

47. 19th Amendment

48. 22nd Amendment

49. 26th Amendment

50. Due process

51. Suffrage