(1.)Which term describes a detailed written plan for a state or nation's government?
(A)A Constitution
A Constitution is a legal document containing a body of fundamental principles and rules that regulate a government and that govern a specific society or a nation.
(2.)Which statement about the articles of confederation is true?
(B)They were the first constitution of the U.S., and they united the newly independent states under a national government with limited power.
The Articles of Confederation was the first US written Constitution, in this document the 13 original American colonies agreed to form a "league of friendship" and to be ruled under a very limited and weak government while keeping their sovereignty and independence.
(3.)Which statements about Shays,s Rebellion are true?
(C) It started because some state governments, including Massachusetts, taxed their citizens excessively in an attempt to raise funds to pay off large debts.
(D) It led many citizens to believe that a stronger national government-one that could be trusted to maintain law and order- had to be established.
The Shay's Rebellion (1786-1787) was a violent uprising, especially taken place in Massachusetts, started by farmers (also former soldiers of the Revolutionary War) who were discontent with certain state economic policies such as the high imposition on taxes and property foreclosures, and other economic issues such as the fact that there was a lack of hard currency and that they had received little compensation for fighting in the Revolutionary War.
The uprising was such that the rebels also attempted to overthrow the government. These events led many citizens to believe that a stronger national government that could be trusted to maintain law, have power to improve the economy and finance its own troops to put down a rebellion had to be established.
(4.) Why didn't the leaders of the U.S.opt to simply revise or improve the articles of Confederation in 1787?
(D) They accepted that the country needed a stronger central government than the one created by the Articles of Confederation could provide.
The government as outlined in the Articles of Confederation lacked very important powers to lead the newly born nation and maintain order, it, for example, could not impose taxes, coin money, draft soldiers from the states and regulate interstate commerce, which brought about severe economic and social problems in the nation. Seeing the inefficiency of this model of government, the US leaders agreed that simply revising or improving the document would not be enough to deal with all these problems, and they, instead, agreed that a whole new Constitution that provided for a stronger central government had to be created
(5)Which compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention established that the population of enslaved people in a state would be only partially represented in that state's official population for representation and taxation purposes?
(A)The Three- Fifths Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise made between delegates during the Constitutional Convention (1787) established that the number of seats of the House of Representatives for each state should be calculated in accordance to the number of free persons, (excluding Indians not taxed) and the three-fifths of slaves, instead of none of them, since slaves were regarded as a property or a thing and not as real people. With this compromise, then, the population of enslaved people in a state was only partially represented in that state's official population for representation and taxation purposes.
