We the People

The beginning of the Constitution is called...

• Ratification

• Preamble

• Chapter 1

• First Amendment

Nine states had to officially accept the Constitution. This is called...

• Nine Pin

• legislation

• ratification

• unification

A change to the Constitution

• bill

• representation

• majority

• amendment

A ceremony for swearing in the president

• swearification

• politics

• inauguration

• impeachment

A constitution is ...

• a compromise

• a plan for the government

• a republic

• the Bill of Rights

City where the Constitution was written in 1787

• Philadelphia

• Washington D.C.

• New York City

• Yorktown

Writer of the Virginia Plan; Father of the Constitution

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Alexander Hamilton

Government plan in which citizens elect leaders to represent them

• a democracy

• a representative

• a monarchy

• a republic

An agreement in which both sides give something up to settle a disagreement

• majority

• amendment

• compromise

• pinky swear

The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention had to do with

• slavery

• representation in Congress

• George Washington

• the Articles of Confederation