Forming a New Government

Open Ended

If you were tasked with creating a new government, what would you do to protect the rights of your citizens?

Multiple Choice

True or False: American Political leaders, fearful of a powerful central government like Britain's, created a strong national system of government.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• No power to Tax

• No Common Currency

• One Vote Per State

• Provided a Strong National Government

Poll

Do you think it would be easier to revise the Articles of Confederation or to Draft a New Constitution?

• Throw it away and start over!!!

• I think it can be saved!!!

• I own a small farm so my vote didn't count before.

Multiple Choice

In the Great Compromise, the Southern states were appeased by counting slaves, how?

• as a whole person

• by plantation

• three-fifths of a population

• they didn't count them

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a branch of the government?

• Judicial

• Executive

• Legislative

• Parliament

Multiple Choice

What group replaced the Anti-Federalists in the emergence of Political Parties by the early 1800s?

• The Whigs

• The Know-Nothings

• The Democratic-Repubicans

• The Republicans