Civics Unit 2 TEST PRACTICE

Choose 3 successes that were achieved under the Articles of Confederation

• It passed the Northwest Ordinance
• It kept the states together during the Revolution and won the war
• It prevented states from conducting their own foreign affairs
• It stopped Shays' Rebellion
• It created its own money

What did Shays' Rebellion prove about the Articles of Confederation?

• The state governments were too weak
• The national government was too weak
• There were no limits on the power of the national government
• No one had control over the army

At the Philadelphia Convention the delegates agreed to

• follow the instructions of Congress
• not improve the Articles of Confederation

• give the state governments more power
• write a new constitution

The Great Compromise solved a conflict about

• when slavery would be abolished
• how to collect taxes from the states
• how many representatives a state could send to Congress
• which natural rights the government should protect

What did the Northern states gain from the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• More representation than Southern states in Congress
• Not having to return fugitive slaves
• Keeping the slave trade going
• Congress would control trade between states, helping their businesses

Which of the following is true?

• The 16th Amendment ended slavery

• The North had to pay more taxes because of the Three-Fifths Compromise
• The Civil War would end the slave trade