AP gov unit 1 test review

What plan is better for small states?

• Connecticut plan

• New Jersey plan

• Articles of Confederation

• All of the above

What year was slavery banned under the great compromise?

• 1808

• 1807

• 1806

• 1809

What did smaller states favor under the New Jersey plan?

• Unicameral Legislature

• Bicameral Legislature

Approach to government that decentralized power, giving more power to the individual states than to the central government.

• confederation
• republic
• natural rights
• initiative

A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

• dual federalism
• Second Continental Congress
• First Continental Congress
• Great Compromise

The foundation of the US legal structure is

• the Federalist Papers
• the Constitution
• the  Supreme Court
• the state constitutions

How could the Articles of Confederation be amended or changed?

• 9 of 13 states approve
• all 13 states approve
• there was no mechanism for amendment

Why can no branch of government become too strong or powerful?

• Not enough laws are there to control power.
• separation of powers checks the other branches
• the president of the U.S. has all the control
• no one branch wants to be powerful

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

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

The New Jersey Plan was supported by _____ states and the Virginia Plan was supported by _____ states

• northern; southern
• large; small
• southern; northern
• small; large