Name _______________________________
Date ________________________________
Period ______________________________
Crash Course US History 8:
The Constitution, the Articles and Federalism
1. What was the original government created by the Continental Congress?
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2. How long did the Articles of Confederation last as a government? ________________________
3. The only powers that were given to Congress ensured that the United States could go to war
with what country? _____________________________________________________________
4. They could make money but they could not collect what? _______________________________
5. Though it could be changed through a unanimous vote, how many amendments were made to
the Articles of Confederation? _____________________________________________________
6. What was OHIO called before it was OHIO? __________________________________________
7. What is the solid or main reason that the Articles were a failure? ________________________
8. What was the name of the event in which farmers rose up in Massachusetts and closed the
courts over farm foreclosures? ___________________________________________________
9. Who was a fan of Shay’s Rebellion? ________________________________________________
10. Who was in favor of the president serving a life term? _________________________________
11. The first conflict that arose at this new writing of the Constitution was between states that big
or small what? __________________________________________________________________
12. Choosing neither the Virginia Plan nor the New Jersey plan instead something in the middle was
made called what? ______________________________________________________________
13. The population debate led to what plan to count slaves, but as only a fraction of people to be
totally racist in that special way that our ‘founding fathers’ were good at calling for freedom but
not for slaves? _________________________________________________________________
14. To avoid the dominance of any one part of the government, how many branches made up the
new federal government? _________________________________________________________
15. The Electoral College can put a president in office that the people did not directly put in there,
which person is shown as the first example? __________________________________________
16. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison contributed to the collection of essays called
what? _________________________________________________________________________
17. Who was the author of the MYSTERY DOCUMENT? _____________________________________
18. How did Alexander Hamilton die? ___________________________________________________
19. The Anti-Federalists were against having a strong government dominated by what group?
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