Fast & Curious Articles to Constitution GimKit

Which of the following is NOT one of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

• The three branches of government had too much power
• Federal laws were hard to pass because 9/13 states had to vote yes.
• The federal government could not levy taxes
• The federal government couldn't regulate interstate trade

What was the name of the uprising led by farmers in Massachusetts over the heavy taxation and seizing of farms due to failure to pay debts?

• Shays Rebellion
• American Revolution
• Rebellion of 1812
• Paine's Rebellion

Which of these plans favored large states?

• Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan
• 3/5ths Compromise
• Pennsylvania Plan

Which of these plans favored small states?

• New Jersey Plan
• Virginia Plan
• Capital Plan
• Florida Plan

This compromise determined that slaves could partially count toward a state's population when determining representation in congress.

• 3/5ths Compromise
• Great Compromise
• Capital Compromise
• Bill of Rights Compromise

Individual Rights

• Basic liberties and privileges of all citizens are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
• Congress would become a bicameral legislature. States would be equal in the Senate with 2 votes. States will receive votes based on population in the House of Representatives.
• A way to protect individual rights
• basic rights of the people that may not be taken away

What was the issue with the Articles of Confederation?

• Created a Central Government that was too weak
• Law that described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed. Outlined how future states would be added.
• STATES PEOPLE HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT ARE NOT ADDRESSED IN THE CONSTITUTION
• Basic liberties and privileges of all citizens are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

Popular Sovereignty

• A government in which the people rule by their own consent.
• Articles of Confederation
• the branch of government that makes the laws, includes Congress
• Law that described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed. Outlined how future states would be added.

Legislative branch

• the branch of government that makes the laws
• 9 years
• making an act a crime after it already happened; this is illegal
• the federal government is divided into 3 branches

Executive branch

• the branch of government that enforces the laws
• these are our rights as a citizen
• 25
• another name for Legislative branch