Topic 2 Lessons 1-5 Quiz

It ended the slave trade.

It gave farmers three-fifths more land in the West.

It limited the number of states that allowed slavery.

It gave Southern states more representation in Congress.

Leviathon and Magna Carta

Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights

Magna Carta and Leviathon

No English documents influenced the Constitution.

to fairly represent all (large and small) states

to allow for population growth

to provide checks and balances

to prevent unconstitutional laws

Americans wanted to win independence by unifying the nation.

Calls to revise the Articles of Confederation

The country needed a national court system to deal with uprising colonists.

The increase of the nation’s westward expansion

by showing how the Articles of Confederation would protect states’ rights

by explaining how the national government would weaken the states

by defining how the Constitution would require a bill of rights

to generate support for ratifying the Constitution

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land

representation

taxes

cities

no power to tax

no president

could not sell land

could not regulate trade

President appoints Supreme Court Justices

House of Representatives can impeach a President or federal judges

Congress can override a veto with 2/3 vote

The are all checks and balances of power