Chapter 3 Test

Under the earliest state constitutions, each state government was divided into what branches?

• House of Representatives and Senate

• executive, legislative, judicial

• governor and court system

• Articles of Confederation

Why did the Articles of Confederation set up a Congress?

• to deal with limited national concerns

• to provide social services

• to levy taxes

• to fight the American Revolution

_________legislatures are divided into two houses

• Confederated

• Sovereign

• Bicameral

• Popular Sovereignty

As a result of the weaknesses of the Confederation government,

• the debt of states grew

• states often fought amongst themselves.

• the Spanish occupied strategic forts in the Great Lakes.

• all of the above

What caused Shays's Rebellion?

• the selling of land in the NW territory

• cruel treatment of enslaved people

• farmers were angry about their rising debt

• abolitionists demanded an end to slavery

What convinced George Washington to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia?

• Shays's Rebellion

• a personal request from Hamlton

• a slave rebellion in Richmond

• British strongholds in the Great Lakes

The New Jersey Plan provided the power to

• levy taxes

• regulate trade

• elect a weak executive branch

• all of the above

The sharing of power between state and federal governments is called

• antifederalism

• communism

• federalism

• republicanism

Antifederalists opposed ratifying the Constitution because they did not want

• to lose individual freedom

• to be taxed

• slavery

• the frontier settled

Americans wanted Spain to grant them the right to

• transport goods to the Mississippi River

• use strategic forts in the Great Lakes.

• borrow money from foreign powers

• tax the slave trade