Unit 3A Benchmark Review

This box describes:

• The Constitution

• Great Compromise

• Articles of Confederation

• New Jersey Plan

The need to strengthen the federal government was best demonstrated by which event?

• Shays’ Rebellion

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Battle of Yorktown

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Which was passed in 1787 in order to provide a way for new territories to join the Union?

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance

• Proclamation of 1787

• The Olive Branch Petition

All of the following were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation except:

• Only one branch of government

• No national army for common defense

• Lack of common currency

• The president had too much power like a tyrant

____________ proposed the Virginia Plan, was a primary contributor to the Constitution, and one of the main Federalists.

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• William Sherman

• George Mason

The Articles of Confederation gave little power to the central government because the authors:

• wanted to provide a way for a monarchy to form

• feared the government would be tyrannical & states wouldn't have any power

• wanted to avoid democracy

• wanted to control the military

True or False: The Federalist Papers were a response to critics of the US Constitution and tried to persuade them to ratify it.

• True

• False

The box describes the:

• Anti-Federalists Papers

• Federalists Papers

• Commerce Clause

• Bill of Rights

Small states who wanted equal representation in Congress supported the _____________ plan

• Virginia

• New Jersey

• Maryland

• New York

All of the following are weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT:

• it created a central government

• there was no common defense/national army

• National government was unable to collect taxes

• there was only one branch of government