Constitution Review

America's first terrible, weak, no-good constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution of 1787

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Constitutional Convention

​ (a)   out of 13 states were required to ​ (b)   the constitution

• 9
• ratify
• 12
• amendment

A country's ​ (a)   is their absolute power to run their own affairs without outside interference

• sovereignty
• republicanism
• confederation

A type of government where people elect representatives

• Republic

• Federalism

• Confederation

• Sovereignty

Which characteristics goes with which plan for representation in Congress?

Groups:

(a) New Jersey Plan

,

(b) Virginia Plan

• Unicameral legislature

• Big states

• Bicameral legislature

• Small states

• Population representation

• Equal representation

The ​ (a)   Compromise decided that ​ (b)   people would count as less than a full person to satisfy the slave states.

• 3/5ths
• enslaved
• Great
• land-owner

The ​ (a)   created a bicameral legislature that was good for both big and small states

• Great Compromise
• 3/5 Compromise
• Representation Compromise

Which of the following events finally proved to the government that the Articles of Confederation was TOO weak and needed to be changed?

• Shays' Rebellion

• The Revolutionary War

• The Great Compromise

• The Slave Rebellions

Match the following

• Gave a way to add new states to the USA

• Great Compromise

• Decided how to count enslaved people

• Shays' Rebellion

• Solved how states should be represented

• Northwest Ordinance

• Authored the constitution

• James Madison

• Farmers fought the government

• 3/5 Compromise

I authored the US constitution

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Ben Franklin