Review: Constitutional Convention and events leading up to it

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Best definition of Republic

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Type of government in which people vote for the leaders who will handle the job of governing for them.

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Best definition of a Democracy

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Type of government in which people participate directly in the decision making process by voting on what the government will do.

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Best definition of Despotism

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Type of government in which a ruler gets exactly what he or she wants, whether it is good for the common people or not.

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Which type of government best matches the government we have in the United States? Options: Democracy, Republic, Autocratic or Dictatorial, Communist

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Republic

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Which two are the most opposite: Communism and Democracy, Communism and Republic, Democracy and Despotism, Republic and Democracy?

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Democracy and Despotism

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What is the purpose of a constitution in a republic?

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It protects individual rights from unfair leaders who might have been voted into office.

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The first attempt at government by the United States, but it did not work for very long were known as

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The Articles of the Confederation

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Which statement best summarizes the biggest trouble with the Articles of the Confederation? Options: They split up the land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Articles collected too many taxes from the American people. They were too weak to handle many of the problems America faced. The states disagreed on if they should have a king, and who the king should be.

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They were too weak to handle many of the problems America faced.

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The central idea to both of these problems: Britain refused to remove soldiers from forts around the Great Lakes. Spain closed important ports to American ships.

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Congress under the Articles of the Confederation was too weak to handle foreign problems.

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What would be the best way to describe the problems with money in the United States after the Revolution?

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Currency was almost worthless because it had been over-printed and it was difficult to do business from one state to another because most states had different money.