Unit 3 Review

Why was the Articles of Confederation weak?

• A

  Congress did not have power to

  regulate

  trade

• Congress could not raise money by collecting taxes and could not

  enforce

  laws

• It was hard to pass new laws

• All of these were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

What document was ratified after the US Constitution?

• Bill of Rights is written

• Delcaration of Independance

How did the Mayflower Compact (that the pilgrims signed) influence theConstitution?

• It said that the king would make all the decisions for the people

• It said that the colonies would have three branches of government

• It created laws for people to follow and these laws were for the good of thepeople.

The Virginia Plan

favored

states with big populations when they said the representation of eachhouse of Congress should be based on the ________________ living in a state.

• Number of landowners

• Number of people

• Number of unmarried women

The New Jersey plan

favored

states with smaller populations when they said therepresentation in each house of Congress should be.....

• Based on the number of people living in that state

• The same, each state should get 2 representatives

• The same, each state should get 10 representatives

• The New Jersey Plan did not favor small states.

The Great Compromise was an agreement that the writers of the Constitution made betweenthe Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan. What did it say?

• That one house of Congress (House of Representatives) would be determinedby population and the other house of Congress (Senate) would have 2representatives per state

• The number of people living in Virginia should determine the number ofrepresentatives in Congress for all states

The sad thing is that when the writers of the Constitution were debating the issue of how tochoose how many representatives each state received, they also debated_________________ which led to the Three-Fifths Compromise:

• if slaves should be counted as people

• if women should be counted as people

• if Native Americans should be counted as people

The Federalist Papers were written by Federalists, like Alexander Hamilton, in order to:

• Convince people NOT to vote in favor of the Constitution

• Convince people to vote IN FAVOR of the Constitution

Why were Anti-Federalists against making the Constitution the “Law of the Land”?

• Because the Constitution didn’t have a Bill of Rights

• Because they wanted peace with the Native Americans

What principle of government does this statement about the Constitution show?

“We the people of the United States...establish this Constitution for the United States ofAmerica.”

• Popular sovereignty

• Republicanism

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers