A More Perfect Union

Question 0

What did the state constitutions allow the states to do?

Answer 0

Make their own laws and their own government

Question 1

What does bicameral mean?

Answer 1

Two houses

Question 2

What was the point of limiting power?

Answer 2

They lowered the power so that people couldn’t abuse the power that they had and they were afraid of Tyranny

Question 3

What were the problems with forming a republic?

Answer 3

They didn’t agree with Each other, and no one wants to give up their power

Question 4

What were the articles of Confederation and what was it called?

Answer 4

It was the first constitution and it was called “a league of friendship”

Question 5

What can the articles of Confederation do?

Answer 5

They can conduct foreign affairs, issue currency, borrow money, maintain Armed Forces, and run a post office

Question 6

What can articles of Confederation not do?

Answer 6

Can’t regulate trade, can’t tax, and can’t make citizens join army

Question 7

How many states was required to vote yes on something to pass a law

Answer 7

9

Question 8

How many states had to vote yes in order to change the articles of Confederation?

Answer 8

13

Question 9

What was the Northwest ordinance

Answer 9

How to make a state

Question 10

What are the requirements to become a state

Answer 10

You had to have 60,000 people in the population, you had to have no slavery, and no matter what each state was equal to one another

Question 11

What was the economic problem?

Answer 11

Money depreciated ( lost value)

Question 12

What were some problems with Britain?

Answer 12

The British stated in the Great Lakes region, and they claimed they wouldn’t leave because the US didn’t pay debts or give loyalists land back

Question 13

What were some problems with Spain?

Answer 13

They want to stop our expansion because we were growing too fast, and they closed the lower half of the Mississippi River

Question 14

Economic depression and the farmers?

Answer 14

Mount farmers couldn’t pay debts because no one was buying goods and money depreciated, so they can easily went bankrupt and with thrown in debtors prison.

Question 15

Who created the first anti-slavery group and when?

Answer 15

The Quakers in 1774

Question 16

What is manumission?

Answer 16

The gradual friend of enslaved persons

Question 17

11 out of 13 states did what to slavery

Answer 17

Either out lawed it or heavily taxed it.

Question 18

Which two states did not outlawed or heavily taxed slavery?

Answer 18

Georgia and South Carolina

Question 19

Who was James Madison

Answer 19

The youngest and smartest of the representatives, he came from Virginia and is known as the father of constitution

Question 20

Who created the Virginia plan and what was it about?

Answer 20

Edward Randolph, and it’s a two house legislature in which the legislator is based on the population. The lower house is picked by the people, and the upper house is picked by the lower house. This is usually good for larger states, and the chief executive is chosen by legislator and courts.

Question 21

Who created the New Jersey plan, and what’s it about?

Answer 21

William Paterson, but it’s a one house legislator with one vote per state. Congress selects the week executive leader, and it is usually good for small states.

Question 22

What who created the great compromise, what is it known as, and what did it do?

Answer 22

Roger Sherman, the Connecticut plan, and it’s a two house legislator with the lower house of representatives is based on the population, and the upper house (the Senate) has two members per state.

Question 23

What was the 3/5 compromise?

Answer 23

James Wilson created it, and it means that 5 slaves equal three free men in the population

Question 24

Who want to the Bill of Rights?

Answer 24

George Mason