Articles of Confederation Quiz

After the Revolutionary War, the American states were independent from Great Britain. They needed to create a system of government to run the new nation. The first system created was known as the ....

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Parliament

• Liberty Boys

The Articles of Confederation was adopted in .....

• 1777

• 2019

• 1776

• 1785

The last American state to ratify the Articles of Confederation was ....

• Florida

• Ohio

• Maryland

• Connecticut

With the Articles of Confederation, who had the most power?

• State governments

• Central governments

The Articles of Confederation was purposely made ...

• strong

• weak

• long

• with misspelled words

There were 5 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Identify one of them below.

• Each state had only one vote.

• All the states used the same money.

• All the states had the same laws.

• All the states were called the same name.

Choose two more weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

• Congress could not levy taxes

• No police force

• No executive or judicial branches

• No President

Another weakness of the Articles of confederation is that every state had no common currency.

• true

• false

Which document took place of the Articles of confederation in 1789?

• The Bill of Rights

• The Articles of confederation

• The Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

How did the American states feel about the central/national government?

• They gave it little respect and didn't want it.

• They wanted it to look just like King George's government.

• They liked it.

• They didn't care.