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A NEW NATION INTERNET
SCAVENGER HUNT
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Click on the blue highlighted links to travel to sites
where you will find answers to the questions below. If there is no
highlighted link in the question, the answer can be found at the
site of the previously highlighted link.
INSTRUCTORS For further
instructions/information on this Scavenger Hunt, please click HERE and scroll down to the "N" section on the page.
OUR EARLY GOVERNMENT
1. Before the Constitution was drafted, a document called The
Articles of Confederation was in effect.
A. On what date were the Articles
adopted?
B. On what date did the Articles
become operative?
2. What did the Articles establish between and among the 13 states?
3. Under the Articles, for what 3 things was Congress responsible?
4. List 3 things the Articles did not allow Congress to do.
Read the article on Daniel
Shays in order to get a background for the following questions.
5. Shays' Rebellion made leaders of our nation stand up and take
notice. The
Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held to make the Articles
of Confederation better and stronger. The members of the Convention
instead decided to draft a new constitution.
A. How many states had to approve
this constitution before it went into affect?
B. How many states ended up ratifying
it?
6. Which states were the first 5 to ratify the Constitution?
7. Which was the ninth state to ratify the Constitution?
8. Which were the last two states of the original 11 to ratify the
Constitution?
9. Why were some people against ratifying the Constitution?
10. In order to avoid any violation of certain civil rights, the
First Congress of the United States introduced 12 amendments to the
constitution. Amendments
3 - 12 were accepted and became known as the ___________
____________________________________.
OUR GOVERNMENT TODAY
The basis of early government having been formed, the document known
as the Constitution has been the law of our land for over 200 years.
Still today, there is a system which allows for the division of
duties within our government. Answer the following questions on the
branches of government we know today.
11. So that no one branch of government has too much power, a system
of checks and balances is in place. One branch checks another in
their duties.
Take a look at a chart of the three branches to familiarize yourself with them.
Now, list the branch that checks the following duties:
(You need to read carefully - the answers are not as plainly given
as they could be!)
A. Create and pass legislation ____________________________________
B. Appoint Federal judges ____________________________________
C. Declare laws unconstitutional __________________________________
Copyright 1998 Jan Purnell
Permission granted to reproduce only for use in the classroom.
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