US History: Standard 5

What factor convinced the framers of the Articles of Confederation to create a weak central government?

•  The division between revolutionaries and loyalists
• Distrust between Northern and Southern states
• The states' unwillingness to limit their own authority
• Cultural differences between Americans and Europeans

Under the Articles of Confederation, which power was held exclusively by the national government?

• Taxation
• Trade
• The court system
• Declaring war

Fifty-five delegates attended the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention. What do we call these men who attended today?

• Delegates of the states

• Representatives of the thirteen colonies

• Framers of the Constitution

• Congressmen

What is the name of the first written plan of government in America?

• Constitution
• Treaty of Paris
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation

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

• strong state government
• weak government
• strong central government
• legslature

Anti-Federalists preferred a strong ____________ government.

• National
• State
• Central
• Republican

What was the position of the group known as the Federalists?

• they supported a new Constitution
• they questioned the justice of slavery
• the feared the power of the national government
• the believed that states should have equal representation

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

What contained the means of adding new states to the Union?

• Northwest Ordinance of 1785
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• The Federalist Papers
• Articles of Confederation

Daniel Shays' rebellion showed that:

• the government under the Articles of Confederation could not keep control of its citizens
• the government should be able to defend our citizens from Great Britain again
• the government needs to protect the citizens from Native American attacks