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Creating the Constitution Jeopardy
Important People 100 200 300 400 500
The Amendments 100 200 300 400 500
Name that Plan 100 200 300 400 500
Miscellaneous 100 200 300 400 500
Vocabulary 100 200 300 400 500
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Miscellaneous for 100

• This is the reason most people were against the
  approval of the Constitution.

• What is that it did not contain the protection of
  individual rights?

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Miscellaneous for 200

• This was one reason people called for changes to
  the Articles of Confederation.

• What was that they felt the central government
  was too weak?

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Miscellaneous for 300

• Most state constitutions had this, but the
  original Constitution of the United States did
  not.

• What was a bill of rights?

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Miscellaneous for 400

• This is what We, the people, refers to in the
  opening of the Constitution.

• What is the citizens of the United States of
  America?

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Miscellaneous for 500

• This is what the Land Ordinance of 1785 provided.

• What is that it allowed settlers and investors to
  by land that was public before this time?

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Important people for 100

• A farmers rebellion was named after him.

• Who was Daniel Shays?

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Important People for 200

• The president of the Constitutional Convention.

• Who was George Washington?

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Important People for 300

• This person took notes on the convention and were
  later published after his death.

• Who was James Madison?

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Important People for 400

• Known for his Great Compromise.

• Who was Roger Sherman?

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Important People for 500

• Believed in a strong national government, and was
  the youngest of the Federalists that were
  responsible for writing the Federalist Papers.

• Who was Alexander Hamilton?

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Vocabulary for 100

• Protects basic liberties of citizens.

• What is a bill of rights?

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Vocabulary for 200

• To approve a document.

• What is to ratify?

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Vocabulary for 300

• The rules under which a government will operate.

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• What is a constitution?

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Vocabulary for 400

• An agreement in which each side gives up some
  demands.

• What is to compromise?

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Vocabulary for 500

• Established a system for governing new
  territories.

• What was the Northwest Ordinance?

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The Amendments for 100

• What the first ten amendments to the Constitution
  are usually called.

• What are the Bill of Rights?

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The Amendments for 200

• This is how the Bill of Rights became part of the
  Constitution.

• What was that it was added through the amendment
  process?

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The Amendments for 300

• This is the freedom that the Second Amendment to
  the Constitution provides.

• What is the right to bear arms?

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The Amendments for 400

• This amendment prevents the government from using
  our homes as a place to keep soldiers.

• What is the 3rd Amendment?

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The Amendments for 500

• These are the five freedoms guaranteed in The
  First Amendment.

• What are freedom of speech, religion, press,
  assembly, and to petition?

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Name that Plan for 100

• Plan that wanted a two house legialature.

• What was the Virginia Plan?

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Name that Plan for 200

• Plan that was liked best by the smaller populated
  states.

• What was the New Jersey Plan?

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Name that Plan for 300

• Plan that supported that seats be awarded by
  population.

• What was the Virginia Plan?

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Name that Plan for 400

• Plan that believed that there should be only a
  one house legislature.

• What was the New Jersey Plan?

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Name that Plan for 500

• Plan that took both the ideas of the larger and
  the smaller populated states on the issue of the
  legislature and combined them together.

• What was the Great Compromise?

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This is Final Jeopardy!!!!

• Explain how ratification of the Constitution was
  threatened by disagreements between the
  Federalists and the Antifederalists. Define the
  position of each side, and explain how the
  differences were resolved.

Possible Answers

• Federalists were for the Constitution and a
  strong central government. They thought that the
  Constitution took care of all of the weaknesses
  that had existed in the Articles of
  Confederation.
• Antifederalists were opposed to the Constitution
  for three main reasons
• They thought the President would become
  kinglike.
• They felt the states would have less power and be
  weakened by it.
• The Constitution did not guarantee peoples
  individual rights and liberties without a Bill of
  Rights added.