Constitution Intro

What was America's first government called?

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution

• The Great Compromise

Select all of the things that were a problem with the Articles of Confederation:

• Government could not tax the people

• States made individual laws that other states did not have to follow

• Taxes were too high

• It did not include the rights of the people

• It did not include details about a fair court system

What happened because the government did not have the power to tax the people?

• soldiers were never paid for their service in the war

• things could not get done because there was no money to pay government officials

• states were fighting over laws

• courts didn't work

Why was Daniel Shays so angry with the government of Massachusetts?

• he was not allowed to vote

• he lost everything he had in the war

• his land was taken from him because he could not pay his taxes

What was the large meeting with 55 representatives where our Constitution was created?

• The Confederation

• The Constitutional Convention

• The Colonial Representation Convention

What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

• to fix the problems with the current government

• to introduce state representatives to one another

• to change the way people would vote for president

Choose all the issues that were discussed at the convention:

• Representation

• Slavery

• the way the government should be structured

• Taxes

• International Relations

How did the smaller states want to be represented in the new "law-making" group?

• Small states wanted all states to get the same number of representatives

• Small states wanted the number of representatives to be based on population of each state

How did large states want to handle the issue of representation?

• Large states wanted each state to have the same number of representatives

• Large states wanted representation to be based on the population of each state

How did the states COMPROMISE on the issue of representation?

• There would be two different groups of law-makers. Representatives in one group would be based on population of each state and representatives in the other group would be equal for everyone.

• There would be three branches of government so that nobody had too much power. The law-making group would have three people from every state.