Constitution and Government Quiz

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

• Articles of Confederation

• Preamble

• Declaration of Independence

• Electoral College

A written plan of government

• Constitution

• Articels of Confederation

• The Federalist papers

• The Preamble

The meeting of state delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution.

• Constitutional Convention

• Articles of Confederation

• Electoral College

• Great Compromise

A law passed by Congress that specified how western land would be governed

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Northwest Territory

• Great Compromise

• Republic

Agreement that settled the question of how slaves were to be counted in determining a state's population. Each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment)

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

• Law Ordinance of 1785

Daniel Shays, a veteran of the Continental Army, led a rebellion of poor farmers in Massachusetts who demanded debt relief, lower taxes, and protections against property seizures.

• Shay's Rebellion (1786)

• Law Ordinance of 1785

• Great Compromise

• Sons of Libety

a law that established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands gained by the Treaty of Paris. Western lands were devided into 6 mile squares called townships.

• Law Ordinance of 1785

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Articles of Confederation

The plan of government adopted at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.

• Great Compromise

• Enlightement

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

• Northwest Territory

• Southwest Territory

• Northeast Territory

• Southeast Territory

This was the First written Constitution of the U.S.

• Constitution

• MayFlower Compact

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independance