Founding a Nation mid-Check

What is a plan for government?

• an article

• a constituion

• a confederation

• an ordinance

What was the name of the first constitution of the United States?

• the Magna Carta

• the Northwest Ordinance

• the Articles of Confederation

• the United States Constitution

Daniel Shays led a group of farmers and closed courthouses and broke into jails to free debtors. This was called...

• Daniel's Rebellion

• The Farmer's Rebellion

• Debtor's Rebellion

• Shay's Rebellion

The Founding Fathers realized the government set up by the Articles of Confederation was...

• too long

• too hard to understand

• too weak

• not weak enough

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 created territory out of land...

• west of the Mississippi River

• east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River

• south of the Ohio River

• east of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River

The 3 branches of government are:

• legislative, executive, and judicial

• legislative, state, and judicial

• state, executive, and judicial

• county, state, and national

The process of making a(n) _____________, or formal change, to the Constitution is explained in Article V of the document.

• amendment

• federalism

• constitution

• appeal

_____________ is having both the national government and the state government with shared power.

• federalism

• amendment

• constitution

• appeal

Why did the Continental Congress create a weak central government when writing the Articles of Confederation?

• to have weak leadership

• to keep the army weak

• to protect people's freedoms

• to test whether it would work

What important decision was made early in the Constitutional Convention?

• to fix the Articles of Confederation

• to forget about having a national government

• to leave the Articles of Confederation unchanged

• to write a new plan of government