Chapter 7 Content Review

How many states had to approve the Articles of Confederation?

• 9

• 11

• all

• 7

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had the power to tax citizens to obtain money for the government.

• True

• False

What compromise determined how Congress would be formed?

• 3/5 Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1787

• Virginia Compromise

What was the major contradiction in America's fight for freedom?

• liberty & slavery

• liberty & colonialism

• slavery & taxation

• liberty & taxation

Who wrote the basic plan of government used in the Constitution?

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• James Madison

• John Adams

What group of people supported developing a new Constitution?

• Anti-Federalists

• British Loyalists

• Democrats

• Federalists

The Anti-Federalists believed that the new Constitution would take away __________________________.

• jobs and housing

• land

• taxes

• freedom/individual rights

How many states needed to ratify the new Constitution?

• 7

• 9

• 13

• 15

What state ratified the new Constitution last?

• Virginia

• Rhode Island

• Maryland

• New Jersey

What did the militia do to the farmers during Shay's Rebellion?

• killed 4 of them

• compromised with them

• settled without violence

• wrote a new agreement with them