ECESD: Social Studies Week #27

What document created the first independent government in America?

• the Bill of Rights

• the Constitution

• the Articles of Confederation

• the Declaration of Independence

Who had authority under the Articles of Confederation?

• the states

• the Founders

• the executive branch

• the federal government

Who was the president of the Constitutional Convention?

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Washington

What were the Federalist Papers?

• newspapers in Philadelphia and Boston

• essays that supported the new government

• responses from King George II to Washington

• letters from the Committee of Correspondence

To whom did the Constitution give power to negotiate with Native American tribes?

• Congress

• the military

• the president

• states

Each state was given authority to regulate ________ under the Articles of Confederation.

• manufacturing

• trade and tariffs

• the settlement of Florida

• the price of newspapers

Elbridge Gerry believed in a powerful federal government.

• true

• false

What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• They created a “league of friendship.”

• Congress could not levy or collect taxes.

• There was a powerful federal government.

• The states elected their own representatives.

fought to protect individual rights in the Constitution

• Elbridge Gerry

• George Mason

• James Madison

• Alexander Hamilton

doubled the size of the United States

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton

• Elbridge Gerry

• George Mason