The Constitution

The first American national government that was setup was called

• The Constitution
• Articles of Confederation
• Bill of Rights
• The Declaration of Independence

This government was considered weak and could be compared to a one-legged stool.

• Articles of Confederation
• The Parliament
• Confederacy
• The Constitution

What was NOT true about the Articles of Confederation?

• The government had the power to collect taxes and force states to give it money.
• Making laws was difficult.
• The government did not have a court that could settle disagreements.
• The government did not have a president.

What former soldier led hundreds of men to rise up against the government?

• Shay Morris
• Daniel Boone
• James Madison
  
• Daniel Shays

Hundreds of men took up their guns and tried to stop the courts from taking people's money. Their fight against the government was known as

• Shays's Revolution
• Revolutionary War
• Shays's Rebellion
• Shays's Declaration

The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to

• force the states to pay taxes
• elect a president
• improve the Articles of Confederation

To improve the Articles of Confederation, delegates met together at this meeting

• Second Continental Congress
• Constitutional Convention
• The Congressional Meeting
• The Confederational Convention

The 55 delegates of the Constitutional Convention were

• well educated and richer than most American
• all white men
• lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers and soldiers
• all of the above

The Constitutional Convention took place in

• Virginia
• Massachusetts
• Philadelphia
• Maryland

One of the Constitutional Convention's fiercest debates was regarding: the number of representatives of the

• Legislative Branch
• Executive Branch
• Judicial Branch