The _____________ branch writes or creates the laws. This branch is called Congress.

• Judicial

• Legislative

• Executive

• Supreme

Type of gov't system were the power of the national government is shared with the state governments.

• federal system

• legislative branch

• U.S. Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

What was the first national government after Independence?

• Merca

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Federal Government

• The Articles of Confederation

What was the problem with first American gov't called the Articles of Confederation?

• The Central Government was too strong

• The Central Government was too weak

• The state governments were too weak

• The state governments were too strong

Who had the only power to decide legal cases under the Articles of Confederation?

• The President

• The Congress

• The States

What did the New Jersey plan propose?

• State representatation in congress based on population

• Equal state representatation in congress

• Only a president with no legislative branch

• That New Jersey be the U.S. Capital

What did Madison’s Virginia Plan propose?

• Equal state representation in congress

• State representatation in congress based on population.

• Only a president with no legislative branch

• That Virginia be the U.S. Capital

The compromise plan that proposed two houses of Congress, the Senate(Equal Representation) and the House of Representatives(Based on population)

• The Judicial Branch

• The three fifths compromise

• The Federal System

• The Great Compromise

This plan of government was created in 1787

• The Revolution

• The Constitution of the United States

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Bill of Rights

The first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing freedoms and rights are known as the

• Bill of Rights

• Articles

• Amendments

• Preamble