The Constitution Review Chapter 14

the document that set up the first government of the United States

• Constitution

• Articles of Confederation

• Compromise

• Constitutional Convention

A weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that the central government

• was too strong

• could not make war

• could not pay its bills

• took power from the states

The men in Shay's Rebellion were fighting to

• free enslaved people

• unite the states

• keep their homes

• get out of the army

Why did all the states call a Constitutional Convention?

• to write state constitutions

• to organize political parties

• to break away from Great Britain

• to improve the Articles of Confederation

Which delegate from Virginia had a plan for a strong central government?

• James Madison

• Benjamin Franklin

• Gouverneur Morris

• George Washington

The Great Compromise was an agreement between

• rich and poor states

• large and small states

• northern and southern states

Whose main job is to make laws?

• Congress

• Governor

• President

• Supreme Court

The advisors to the head of the executive branch make up the

• ambassadors

• cabinet

• court

• senate

After a government official is impeached, what happens next?

• The person goes to jail

• The person must resign

• The House holds a vote

• The Senate holds a trial