Forming A Government

The document that set up the first government of the United States was...

• The Virginia Constitution

• The English Bill of Rights

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Magna Carta

One of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was that the national government could not...

• Conduct Foreign Affairs

• Collect Taxes

• Issue or Borrow Money

• Trade with Foreign Nations

One way the Government was able to make money under the Articles was to...

• Sell Western Lands

• Steal Gold from Spanish Ships

• Tax the States

• Buy Land

Delegates of the Constitutional Convention met in the city of ____________ with the goal of fixing the Articles

• Boston

• New York

• Montreal

• Philadelphia

The document that set up our current government was...

• The Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

• The Federalist Papers

The president of the Constitutional Convention was...

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Paine

Which plan proposed a two house legislature where each state would receive representatives based on state population?

• Michigan Plan

• Pennsylvania Plan

• Virginia Plan

• The Judicial Plan

Which plan called for a one house Congress where each state would receive an equal number of representatives?

• New Jersey Plan

• Georgia Plan

• Delaware Plan

• The Pioneer Sugar Plan

The Three-Fifths Compromise declared that three-fifths of the slave population would __________________.

• be counted in a state's population for representation purposes

• be freed immediately

• be sent back to Africa in 1789

• receive minimum wage

Citizens who opposed ratifying the Constitution were called ______________

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Patriots

• Anti-federalists