Creating a New Government

Where did a committee write a plan for a new government?

• 2nd continental congress

• Constitutional Convention

• New York

• Washington

Who came from all 13 states to attend the congress

• senators

• Farmers

• Delegates

• states

What was the name of the government that was approved by all 13 states becoming the first government of the U.S.A.?

• treaties

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

• Confederacy

Congress was given the power to make

• treaties

• take states to court if they did not pay taxes

• Tax citizens

• Create courts

The articles of confederation did not provide for a

• president

• army during war time

• post office

• way for the central government to negotiate treaties

Where was the constitutional convention?

• Washington D.C.

• New York

• Philadelphia

• Boston

What was the purpose of the constitutional convention?

• to declare themselves a free nation

• To write The Articles of Confedracy

• to fix or revise The Articles of Confederacy

• to send money to the troops

having to do with money

• revise

• financial

• justice

• treaty

a person chosen to speak or acto for a group

• delegate

• financial

• justice

• treaty

fair and equal treatment under the law

• delegate

• financial

• treaty

• justice