Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz

What were the Articles of Confederation?

• A tax on imported goods

• A failure to give the national government necessary power

• the first governing document of the United States; failed to give the national government the necessary power to be effective

• A rebellion in Massachusetts

What is a constitution?

• Failure or inability to pay debts, complete failure, ruin

• Government in which people elect officials to represent them

• A document presenting a plan of government

• A sum of money levied upon persons, property or business

What is revenue?

• A tax on imported goods

• To take away the right to own property

• Total current income of a country

• To officially approve a proposal

What is a tax?

• A document presenting a plan of government

• Failure or inability to pay debts, complete failure, ruin

• Government in which people elect officials to represent them

• A sum of money levied upon persons, property or business

What does it mean to ratify something?

• A rebellion in Massachusetts

• A plan of government

• To officially approve a proposal

• To take away the right to own property

What is a republic?

• Government in which people elect officials to represent them

• A tax on imported goods

• To take away the right to own property

• Total current income of a country

What is a tariff?

• To officially approve a proposal

• To take away the right to own property

• Total current income of a country

• A tax on imported goods

What is foreclosure?

• To take away the right to own property

• Failure or inability to pay debts, complete failure, ruin

• A tax on imported goods

• Total current income of a country

What is bankruptcy?

• A tax on imported goods

• Failure or inability to pay debts, complete failure, ruin

• Total current income of a country

• To officially approve a proposal

What was Shays' Rebellion?

• A plan of government

• A rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts

• A tax on imported goods

• A failure to give the national government necessary power