Unit Three: Founding Documents

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and other people who approved of the US Constitution and wanted it to be ratified

• Federalist

• Federalism

• Declaration of Independence

• Grievance

The division of power between the national government and state governments

• Federalist

• Federalism

• Declaration of Independence

• Grievance

Document written by THOMAS JEFFERSON that declared the Colonies had the right to be FREE and INDEPENDENT from Britain

• Federalist

• Federalism

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

Complaint, specifically against King George III

• Grievance

• Federalism

• Constitution

• Federalist

Rights that cannot be taken away; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

• Freedom Rights

• Federalism

• Declaration of Independence

• Unalienable Rights

A series of violent strikes in Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays and other farmers that opposed high taxes that caused poverty and closings of farms

• Grievance

• Shay's Rebellion

• Stamp Act

• Constitutional Convention

First form of government in the United States. This document had a weak central government that could not tax citizens or raise a national army. 

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

A formal meeting held in 1787 to draft the Constitution of the United States

• First Continental Congress

• Second Continental Congress

• Constitutional Convention

• Amendment

An official change to a law

• Amendment

• Constitution

• Ratify

• Separation of Powers

To officially add or approve a Constitution or amendment.

• Repeal

• Ratify

• Amendment

• Constitution