Articles of Confederation and Constitution Quiz

What type of document outlines basic, principles, organization, and processes of government?

• constitution

• Declaration of Independence

What did the citizens have more loyalty to right after the American Revolution?

• United States of America

• Individual states they lived in

• China

According to the Land Ordinance of 1785, what could Americans do?

• whatever they wanted

• move to Honduras

• Buy sections of land that has 640 acres of land for $640

Daniel Shays' was a

• miner

• farmer

In what year was Shay's Rebellion?

• 1750

• 1786

• 1900

What was the name of the plan that called for a strong central government and representatives based of a state's population?

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Don't know. Don't care.

Who was considered the "Father of the Constitution?"

• James Madison

• Ben Franklin

The goal of the Constitutional Convention was to

• revise the Articles of Confederation

• create a land of bountiful harvests