Chapter 7 Review

Americans were afraid that a __?__ would lead to tyranny or oppressive rule.

• strong state government
• weak government
• strong national government
• legslature

Under the Articles of Confederation, most of the power was where?

• Legislative branch
• the president
• the states
• national government

How many branches of government were there under the Constitution?

• One
• Zero
• Two
• Three

Under the Articles of Confederation, how many votes did each state get when voting on a new law?

• Zero
• One
• Two 
• Three

Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress couldn't collect taxes
• Weak central government
• Provided for no common currency
• All of the these

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

• Proclamation of 1763
• Constitution
• Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Paris 1783

This was America's 1st constitution, which proved to weak to protect the American people.

• Articles of Confederation
• U.S. Constitution
• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Human Rights

Congress never had any money because under the Articles they did NOT have the power to ____.

• print money
• sell items to other countries
• tax
• spend money

Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery in the new territory.

• True
• False

 The Constitutional Convention was called to fix the Articles of Confederation and instead of fixing it they abandoned it and created a new constitution. 

• True
• False