Articles of Confederation & Continental Convention Review

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What is a confederation?

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An organization of many smaller groups into one large group

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Why would some colonies not want to unify?

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they feared they would be controlled as they had been with Britain

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After the Declaration of Independence was signed, what did the Second Continental Congress decide? Options: That they needed a strong national government, That they needed a weak national government and strong state governments, that they had a country to rule, That Thomas Jefferson did not pay the lunch bill he promised to pay

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That they needed a strong national government

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The Articles of Confederation gave most of the power to _________________________.

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the states

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What percent of the national Congress had to agree in order to create or change laws?

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70%

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What percentage of the states had to agree to make changes to the Articles of Confederation?

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It had to be unanimous.

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Which if the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation? Options: It had a national government that had too much power, It had a very weak national government, It did not give enough power to the states, the court system had too much power

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It had a very weak national government

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Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
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the federal court system had too much power,
it gave all the power to the national government,
it gave all the power to the president,
it did not have a federal court system

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it did not have a federal court system

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Why did the weak national government hurt the country?

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The states were being run like thirteen different countries, the laws were inconsistent from state to state, and Congress had no power to collect taxes.

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Why were the larger states angry with the Articles of Confederation? Options: they did not like that all states were treated equally, the did not like that all states were not treated equally, they did not like Massachusetts because it got all the attention, they didn't like some of the language used

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they did not like that all states were treated equally