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Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress promoted trade by negotiating treaties with other nations, including Holland, Prussia, and:
Sweden
Shay’s Rebellion, which many Americans saw as evidence of the Articles of Confederation Congress’s weakness, began when
the government of Massachusetts raised taxes to pay off its debts.
The Constitution established a framework for limited government, which included a federal system, separation of powers among the branches of government, and
Samuel Adams opposed ratification of the Constitution because he believed it
endangered independence of the states
The Connecticut Compromise resolved differences between
large states and small states over representation in Congress.
Because the states did not all impose the same duties on foreign goods under the Articles of Confederation, British merchants could:
bring inexpensive goods to the states with the lowest taxes.
The Virginia Plan proposed a two-house Congress that would benefit
large states with many people.
powers given to the central government under both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution?
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The first eight amendments in the Bill of Rights protect the rights of individuals against actions of the federal government, and the last two
set limits on the power of the national government
A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that the Congress
had no power to impose tax
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were shown by a dispute over the border between Spanish territory and
Georgia
Presented to the delegates at the Constitutional Convention, the Virginia Plan proposed creating a new government with the power to make laws and
raise its own money through taxes.
The Constitution grants all legislative powers of the national government to
Congress
The Tenth Amendment, included in the Bill of Rights, states that any powers not specifically given to the federal government are
reserved to states or the people
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state began to
act as an independent country
Under the Articles of Confederation, Loyalists could not recover property confiscated from them during the Revolutionary War because
the States refused to return property to Loyalists.
The Great Compromise, under which representation in one house of Congress would be based on population and states would have equal representation in the other, was based on a proposal from
Under the Constitution, the president would have the power to propose legislation, appoint judges, put down rebellions, and
veto congress
After the Revolutionary War, states began levying taxes on each other’s goods largely because the Confederation Congress
was not allowed to regulate commerce
By determining how the states would be represented in the two houses of Congress, the Great Compromise resolved differences between
states with large and small populations
British forces violated a provision in the Treaty of Paris calling for them to leave American soil, but under the Articles of Confederation the Congress had no power to
raise an army to enforce the treaty.
The agreement at the Constitutional Convention that every five enslaved people in a state would count as three persons for determining representation and taxes was called the
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For opponents of the Constitution, the most important issue was whether the national government
or state governments would be supreme
To overcome opposition to ratifying the Constitution in Massachusetts, Federalists promised to support
adding a Bill of Rights
Which of the following is the system created in the Constitution to prevent any one of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful?
checks and balances