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1776 - ✔Declaration of Independence
1776-1781 - ✔Fought and won Revolutionary War
1781 - ✔Country adopted Articles of Confederation (1st Constitution)
1786 - ✔Shay's Rebellion; call sent out for a constitutional convention to fix or strenghten the
Articles
1787 - ✔Philadelphia Constitutional Convention held-100 days. Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist
Debate started. A 2nd US Constitution written.
1788 - ✔Ratification of the Constitution by 9 states and elections are held for new President and
House.
1789 - ✔2nd US Constitution officially starts. George Washington sworn in as President. First
Congress writes and passes 12 Amendments in the Bill of Rights with a 2/3's vote.
1791 - ✔3/4th's of the States approved 10 of 12 Amendments. The Bill of Rights is officially
added to the 2nd US Constitution.
7th Amendment - ✔Right to a civil trial.
8th Amendment - ✔No excessive bail/fines, no cruel and unusual punishment.
9th Amendment - ✔Protects Unenumerated Rights.
10th Amendment - ✔State Governments are given "Reserved Powers."
Which part of the Constitution specifically reserves powers for the states?
, 12th Amendment - ✔Changed electoral college.
13th Amendment - ✔Banned slavery.
14th Amendment - ✔Granted citizenship to all born in America. Granted equal protection.
Granted due process.
15th Amendment - ✔Stopped racial discrimination in voting (only for males).
19th Amendment - ✔Allowed women the right to vote
24th Amendment - ✔Banned poll taxes for federal elections.
26th Amendment - ✔Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 due to Vietnam War.
Social Contract Theory - ✔The belief that the people agree to set up rulers for certain purposes
and thus have the right to resist or remove rulers who act against those purposes.
What is a republic? - ✔A government without a monarch. A government based on the consent
of the governed, whose power is exercised by representatives who are responsible to them.
Shay's Rebellion - ✔An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in
western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt
and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.
It demonstrated the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Virginia Plan - ✔That the legislature consist of two houses. The first would be chosen by the
people, the second by the members of the first house from among candidates nominated by the
state legislatures.
That each state's representation in the legislature be in proportion to the taxes it paid to the
national government or in proportion to its free population.
1776 - ✔Declaration of Independence
1776-1781 - ✔Fought and won Revolutionary War
1781 - ✔Country adopted Articles of Confederation (1st Constitution)
1786 - ✔Shay's Rebellion; call sent out for a constitutional convention to fix or strenghten the
Articles
1787 - ✔Philadelphia Constitutional Convention held-100 days. Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist
Debate started. A 2nd US Constitution written.
1788 - ✔Ratification of the Constitution by 9 states and elections are held for new President and
House.
1789 - ✔2nd US Constitution officially starts. George Washington sworn in as President. First
Congress writes and passes 12 Amendments in the Bill of Rights with a 2/3's vote.
1791 - ✔3/4th's of the States approved 10 of 12 Amendments. The Bill of Rights is officially
added to the 2nd US Constitution.
7th Amendment - ✔Right to a civil trial.
8th Amendment - ✔No excessive bail/fines, no cruel and unusual punishment.
9th Amendment - ✔Protects Unenumerated Rights.
10th Amendment - ✔State Governments are given "Reserved Powers."
Which part of the Constitution specifically reserves powers for the states?
, 12th Amendment - ✔Changed electoral college.
13th Amendment - ✔Banned slavery.
14th Amendment - ✔Granted citizenship to all born in America. Granted equal protection.
Granted due process.
15th Amendment - ✔Stopped racial discrimination in voting (only for males).
19th Amendment - ✔Allowed women the right to vote
24th Amendment - ✔Banned poll taxes for federal elections.
26th Amendment - ✔Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 due to Vietnam War.
Social Contract Theory - ✔The belief that the people agree to set up rulers for certain purposes
and thus have the right to resist or remove rulers who act against those purposes.
What is a republic? - ✔A government without a monarch. A government based on the consent
of the governed, whose power is exercised by representatives who are responsible to them.
Shay's Rebellion - ✔An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in
western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt
and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.
It demonstrated the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Virginia Plan - ✔That the legislature consist of two houses. The first would be chosen by the
people, the second by the members of the first house from among candidates nominated by the
state legislatures.
That each state's representation in the legislature be in proportion to the taxes it paid to the
national government or in proportion to its free population.
