Unit 4: US Government

Which of the following is NOT true of the Articles of Confederation?

• It was the first attempt to establish a government for the new country

• It allowed the government to set and collect taxes

• It did not succeed; it was a flop

• I allowed for expansion into the Ohio Territory

Shays Rebellion showed that the Articles of Confederation was too weak because.....

• the Articles did not have a way to set or collect taxes

• the Articles did not call for a standing army to intervene with rebellions

• the Articles did not call for a Navy

• None of these

What was the original goal of the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• Discuss representation

• Invent a better outline for American government

• re-write the Articles of Confederation

The Great Compromise was a compromise to solve which issue?

• Slavery

• Taxes

• Representation

The "big ideas" of the Constitution of the United States included all of the following EXCEPT.....

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• Monarchy

• Popular Sovereignty

What is Republicanism?

• power is shared equally between the people and their community's elected representative

• power is held by the people and their elected representatives

• ordinary people lack any power

What is Federalism?

• States share power with the national, or "big" government

• states are more powerful than the national, or "big" government

• the national, or "big" government, has more power than each individual state

The authors of the Constitution wanted a way to avoid one branch of the government from overstepping it's power. This is called....

• Separation of Powers

• Republicanism

• Checks and Balances

Which of the following is TRUE about the Bill of Rights? (Check all that apply!)

• There are 27 "Rights" to date

• The Bill of Rights is actually the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution

• The Anti-Federalists wanted the rights of the citizens written out as a guarantee of those rights

• The Bill of Rights is a compromise because Federalists insisted on it

The Founding Fathers.... (Check all that apply!)

• Came from different professions

• Were educated

• Were from all 13 States

• Shared the ideas of the Enlightenment