8th Grade Topic 4 Test

First ten amendments of the Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Federalist Papers

Event that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

• Shays' Rebellion

• Boston Tea Party

• Civil War

• War of 1812

First Constitution that failed.

• Articles of Confederation

• U.S. Constitution

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

What set up a system for white Americans to settle in the Northwest Territory?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Homestead Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Land Ordinance of 1785

What stated new territories should be admitted as states?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

These group of people wanted a strong Federal Government

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Loyalists

• Patriots

This plan called for a unicameral legislature with the same number of representatives

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

What two branches were missing under the Articles of Confederation?

• Executive and Judicial

• Legislative and Executive

• Judicial and Legislative

• Executive and Legislative

Occurred on May 25, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Constitutional Convention

• Boston Massacre

• Signing of the Declaration of Independence

• Battle of Gettysburg

Another name for the Great Compromise

• Connecticut Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Compromise of 1850