unit 3 week 1

Ratification

• formal approval

• groups of citizen soldiers

The ______ Plan believed population should be represented in legislature

• New York

• New Jersey

• Virginia

• Washington

The ______ Plan added the Senate to make representation in Congress more equal.

• New Jersey

• Virginia

• Oklahoma

• Ohio

A ___________ is an agreement between two or more people.

• compromise

• precedent

• representative

• provision

The __________ Plan created 3 branches of government.

• New Jersey

• Virginia

• Ohio

• Texas

The Constitution fixed the problem of collecting taxes by creating a strong ________________.

• central government

• state government

• local government

• parliament

Under the Articles of Confederation the Congress was too weak to collect __________.

• taxes

• bonds

• coins

• answers

What was the Great Compromise?

• The Virginia Plan
• The New Jersey Plan
• A combining of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan
• A destruction of the Virginia & New Jersey plans

What made people concerned about the weakness of the central (federal) government under the Articles of Confederation and caused the revision?

• The Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• The 3/5 Compromise

• Shay's Rebellion

The smaller states wanted - 

• equal representation for all states in Congress
• representation in Congress based on a state's population
• the revision of the Articles of Confederation
• the nation's capitol in New Jersey