Constitution Quiz Practice!

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the U.S. Constitution

• Constitutional Convention

• Treaty of Paris

• Continental Congress

• Articles of Confederation

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration

• Constitution

• Amendment

Ratify means . .

• a treaty

• to debate

• to oppose

• to approve formally

The _________ had most of the power under The Articles of Confederation

• Congress

• Royal Governor

• States

• Supreme Court

What is the Constitution?

• a document that explains where Americans can travel

• the document that helps us make money

• the document that declared our independence from Great Britain

• a document that outlines how our government will be run

The Constitution replaced the ______ as the governing document of the country.

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• The Federalist Papers

 

What is the name of the first United States Constitution?

• Articles of Confederation

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Federalist Papers

 

Anti-federalists SUPPORTED making a new constitution.

• True

• False

Federalist SUPPORT a strong, national government and creating a new constitution.

• True

• False

Why did Anti-Federalists not want a strong central government?

• They wanted to brag to Britain about how much better they were

• They wanted it to be easier to start the new country

• They wanted to avoid another tyrant like the British king