US History Important Documents

The Constitution was ratified in what year?

• 1776

• 1783

• 1787

• 1965

This date declared our independence from England by the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

• 1776

• 1783

• 1787

• 1965

The official end to the Revolutionary War came with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in what year?

• 1776

• 1781

• 1783

• 1787

This document declared the US independent from England

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

This document was the FIRST written government of the United States.

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

This document that officially ended the Revolutionary War

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris

• Great Compromise

What event showed that the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised?

• Revolutionary War

• Shay's Rebellion

• Continental Congress

• Constitutional Congress

This document gave us a bicameral Congress.

• Constitution

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

a 2 house Congress

• biopsy

• bicameral

• bilateral

• biology

This document settled the argument of how slaves would be counted for representation and taxes.

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Bill of Rights