Confederation to Constitution Mini Review

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How did Farmers' rebellion in western Massachusetts affect people's reactions to the Articles of Confederation?

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People worried about having a weak central government.

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Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation? Options: Congress couldn't collect taxes, Lack of control over trade, Provided for no common currency, All of the these

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All of the these

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The Virginia and New Jersey Plans were combined in the

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Great Compromise

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

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Constitution

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What change did George Mason and other Anti-Federalists want made to the Constitution?

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They wanted more protection of individual rights.

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Ratification of a constitutional amendment requires a ______ vote of the state legislatures or in convention

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Which law geographically organized and settled claims to the Northwest Territory after the Revolutionary War?

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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The Articles of Confederation enabled

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the Treaty of Paris to be signed, ending the Revolutionary War.

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During the Constitutional Convention, James Wilson and Roger Sherman proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise which dealt with how the slave population would be counted for state representation.

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the slave population would be counted for state representation

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The Tenth Amendment, Federalism, states that

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powers not given to the national government or prohibited from the states belong to the states or the people.