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History: Articles of Confederation quiz

Terms in this set (13)

Who was elected President of the Constitutional Convention?
George Washington
What was the 1st plan for a National Government and it failed?
Articles of Confederation
What is the name of the branch of Government that makes the laws?
Legislative Branch
What city was the Constitutional Convention held in?
Philadelphia
Who proposed the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention?
Edmund Randolf and James Madison
Who proposed the New Jersey Plan?
William Patterson
What is a system of government where power is shared between the state and federal government?
Federalism
What is the name of the branch of government that enforces laws?
Executive Branch
What is the name of the branch of government that interprets laws and decides if the laws are fair?
Judicial Branch
What was the name of the proposed plan for government that allowed every state, regardless of size, to have 2 representatives in the national government?
New Jersey Plan
What was the name of the law that established a plan for surveying and selling federally owned land?
Land Ordinances
What was the name of the proposed plan for the government that determined representation in the national government by population?
The Virginia Plan
Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation give the national government so little power?
1. They didn't want to end up like Britain with tyranny.
2. They didn't want them to become too powerful.
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