Articles of Confederation
What were the Articles of Confederation?
What is the first government of the United States?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitution?
True or false
The Constitution was written first, but the Articles of Confederation happened after the Constitution did not work well.
What is false?
This is the definition of diplomacy:
What is the way countries or leaders communicate and work with each other peacefully to solve problems?
This is the definition of Pluralism:
What is a system where many different ideas, groups, or cultures exist and are respected?
Under the Articles, this branch of government was the strongest.
What is state government?
This branch of government creates laws.
What is the legislative branch?
What state was not at the official Constitutional Convention?
What is Rhode Island?
Diplomacy often helps countries avoid this.
What is war?
This is the definition of consensus:
What is working together to find an agreement that most people accept?
The national government could not do this under the Articles, which caused money problems.
What is collect taxes?
The Constitution allows the government to do this to raise money.
What is collect taxes?
This plan was proposed by James Madison an stated that representation in Congress should be decided by a states population
True or False
Is this situation showing diplomacy?
One country refuses to listen to others and makes decisions alone.
What is false?
Is this pluralism or consensus:
Large and small states disagreed about representation in Congress, so delegates agreed on a two-house legislature to satisfy both sides.
What is consensus?
Changing the Articles required approval from how many of the 13 states?
What is all 13?
This was the compromise that the convention agreed upon when addressing the issue of representation in Congress - either by population or equal.
What is the Great Compromise?
The Constitution fixed issues from the Articles of Confederation by forming what form of government?
What is a bicameral government?
True or false
Is this an example of diplomacy?
Leaders from different states calmly discuss their problems and agree on a compromise.
What is true?
Is this pluralism or consensus?
States had different economies, populations, and opinions, and all of those viewpoints were represented during debates.
What is pluralism?
This was the only branch of government created by the Articles.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
This compromise decided whether slaves would be counted as part of a states population (representation).
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
Under the Articles, states had most of the power, but after the Convention, power was shared between states and this government.
What is National (federal) government?
True or false
Is this an example of diplomacy?
A country cuts off trade with another country and publicly criticizes it but continues private meetings to try to reach an agreement without using military force.
What is true?
Is this pluralism or consensus?
Lawmakers from different parties and backgrounds share many viewpoints, showing that many voices are part of government.
What is pluralism?