Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention Flashcards
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Under the Articles of Confederation, how did Congress try to raise money?
Answer: By requesting funds from the states, which often refused
Congress lacked the power to tax and could only make requisitions that states frequently ignored.
Which branches of government were missing at the national level under the Articles of Confederation?
Answer: An executive and a national judiciary
The Articles created only a one-house Congress, with no president or national court system.
Under the Constitution's commerce compromise, Congress could not ban the importation of enslaved people until what year?
Answer: 1808
Article I, Section 9 barred Congress from prohibiting the slave trade before 1808.
On what date was the Constitution signed, now observed as Constitution Day?
Answer: September 17, 1787
Delegates signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia.
About how many of the 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention signed the final document?
Answer: 39
Thirty-nine delegates signed; some had left early and a few refused to sign.
What did the Land Ordinance of 1785 establish?
Answer: A system for surveying western land into townships
It divided western lands into six-mile-square townships for orderly sale.
In Federalist No. 10, James Madison argued that a large republic would best control what problem?
Answer: The dangers of factions
Madison argued that a large, diverse republic makes it hard for any one faction to dominate.
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