Confederation to Constitution

A bicameral legislature has

• two votes per state
• two chambers
• three branches
• nine judges

What year was the Constitution Convention?

• 1781
• 1776
• 1787
• 1783

Americans were afraid that a __?__ would lead to tyranny, or oppressive rule.

• strong state government

• weak government

• strong central government

• legislature

Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress couldn't collect taxes

• No national courts to settle state disputes

• Difficult to pass new laws or amendments

• All of the these

The two chambers of Congress (the US Legislative Branch) are....

• House of Representatives and Assembly 
• Senate and Congress 
• House of Representatives and Senate
• House of Lords and House of Commons

In what chamber of Congress does each state have equal representation? 

• Senate 
• House of Representatives 
• General Assembly 
• House of Commons 

The Virginia Plan called for representation in Congress based on

• population of each state
• tax revenue from each state
• equal legislators for each state
• slave population of a state

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans were combined in the

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Trade Compromise
• Southern Compromise
• Great Compromise

The Three-Fifths Compromise solved disagreements over 

• repayment of Revolutionary War debt
• large and small state representation
• representation and taxation of slave states
• continuing the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The president is chosen every 4 years by

• representative electors from each state
• the national popular vote
• two-thirds vote of Congress
• three-fourths vote in a states convention