Confederation to Constitution

How did Shays' Rebellion affect people's reactions to the Articles of Confederation?

• People hoped for a new revolution.
• People worried about having a weak central government.
• People wanted more individual rights.
• It put more farmers' in debtors jail.

Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress couldn't collect taxes
• Lack of control over trade
• Provided for no common currency
• All of the these

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established

• peace treaties with Native tribes
• townships to sell land in the Northwest Territory
• compromises between large and small states
• governments for the western territories

What is one reason people wanted change to the Articles of Confederation?>

• They opposed the Land Ordinance of 1785.
• They didn't want the government to have only 1 branch. 
• Central government was weak and ineffective.
• State government was weak and ineffective.

Which of these was an economic problem for the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation?

• There were too many Continental and state currencies
• The states taxed each other's goods
• Each state had its own trade policies with foreign countries
• All of these

Which Framer is known as the "Father of the Constitution"?

• George Washington
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Mason

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans were combined in the

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Trade Compromise
• Southern Compromise
• Great Compromise

The weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederation led to an effort to create a new _____________.

• Proclamation of 1763
• Constitution
• Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Paris 1783

The Three-Fifths Compromise solved disagreements over 

• repayment of Revolutionary War debt
• large and small state representation
• representation and taxation of slave states
• continuing the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The president is chosen every 4 years by

• representative electors from each state
• the national popular vote
• two-thirds vote of Congress
• three-fourths vote in a states convention