America as a New Country

America's First Government was the ___________.

• Constitutional Democracy

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitutional Republic

One of the reasons farmers in Massachusetts rebelled against the government was because __________.

• Many of their properties were foreclosed

• Britain won the Revolutionary War

• Americans elected George Washington as president.

• Revolutionary war heroes were supposed to rebel from time to time to remind people of the Revolutionary cause.

People who supported changing the government were called ________.

• Anti-federalists

• federalists

• revolutionaries

• crimestoppers

People who supported keeping the Articles of Confederation were called _________.

• anti-federalists

• federalists

• revolutionaries

• crimestoppers

A confederation is a ________.

• country in the South

• smaller country in Eastern Europe

• (an) alliance among groups of people, states, or organizations

• (an) army that can easily beat rebel groups.

Under the Articles of Confederation, each state counted ___________.

• as two votes

• as three votes

• as four votes

• the same

Passing legislations was difficult under the A.O.C. because one needed _______ out of 13 states.

• 9

• 8

• 6

• 13

The top secret meeting to alter or revamp the A.O.C. was known as the ___________.

• Code of Conduct Committee

• Constitutional Convention

• Constantinople

• Impeachment Hearings

The person who wrote most of the Constitution was _______.

• T-Pain, the rapper

• T-Paine, the founding father

• Abigail "I'm so Fierce" Adams

• James "Mad Dog" Madison

Delegates from smaller states, such as New Jersey, wanted to ________.

• make representation based on population

• make representation equal for all states

• tell us who is in charge

• totally revamp the Articles of Confederation, as opposed to reforming (changing) it slightly.