us history Articles of confederation

Question 1

What are the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 1

Sucked
-Couldn’t tax
-Couldn’t have a military
-the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain

Question 2

What was the Northwest Territory?

Answer 2

Good thing:
-Outlawed slavery in the NW
-Outlined how to be a state
-Set up public education

Question 3

What was Shay’s Rebellion?

Answer 3

A farmer Daniel Shay’s took money from the bank for farming equipment and didn’t want to pay it back so they started to kill the bankers.

Question 4

What was the Philadelphia Convention?

Answer 4

-They originally went to fix the problems of the Articles of Confederation
-1787
-Their intention was not to write the Constitution but that is what ended up happening

Question 5

Who was James Madison?

Answer 5

-Known as the Father of the Constitution
-His plan was the Virginia Plan

Question 6

What was the Virginia Plan?

Answer 6

-Virginia wanted a states representation to be based off of population
-Executive, Judicial, (Bicameral) Legislative

Question 7

Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches did what?

Answer 7

Legislative- Made the laws
Executive-Enforced the laws
Judicial-Interprets laws

Question 8

What is a Bicameral Legislature?

Answer 8

House of Representatives and the Senate

Question 9

What was the New Jersey plan?

Answer 9

Representation would be equal

Question 10

What is the Great Compromise?

Answer 10

House of Representatives would be based on population (Virginia Plan)
Senate would be equal (New Jersey Plan)

Question 11

What is a Census?

Answer 11

Every 10 years the population of each state is recounted to see if the HOR amount needs to increase or decrease.

Question 12

What is the 3/5th Compromise?

Answer 12

When only 3 out of 5 slaves would be considered in the population of a state (The south didn’t like it)

Question 13

What were the Federalist Papers?

Answer 13

Persuasive writings written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution

Question 14

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 14

-The first 10 Amendments
-Limiting the power of the National Government

Question 15

What is the Supreme Law of the Land?

Answer 15

Nobody is over the Constitution

Question 16

What is a Federalist?

Answer 16

They believe in a strong central government

Question 17

What is an Anti Federalist?

Answer 17

Wanted a weak central government

Question 18

How many amendments do we have?

Answer 18

27

Question 19

What did congress have no authority to enforce?

Answer 19

Congress had no authority to enforce its requests to the states for money or troops.

Question 20

Who was Hamilton’s arch rival?

Answer 20

Thomas Jefferson

Question 21

What did delagates become known as?

Answer 21

Framers of the Constitution

Question 22

How many states out of 13 were needed to ratify the constitution?

Answer 22

9 out of 13

Question 23

What was the purpose of the system of Checks and Balances?

Answer 23

Wanted to make sure no single branch would have too much authority

Question 24

Which class was hurt the most?

Answer 24

The Merchant class