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1) Select the best answer.

What was a major difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution?

Amending the Articles required all of the states’ approval while amending the Constitution required approval from only nine states.

Amending the Articles required three-fourths of the states’ approval while amending the Constitution required 100% approval.

The Articles provided for a defense of the states by the states, whereas the Constitution provided for a national military.

The Articles provided a strong central government while the Constitution created a weak confederate government.

2) Select TWO reasons why Anti-Federalists did not support the ratification of the Constitution.

The Constitution lacked a bill of rights.

Anti-Federalists opposed the concentration of power in a central national government instead of in the states.

The Constitution did not provide for a court system.

The legislature under the Constitution would operate just like Parliament.

3) Select the best answer.

Why was Article VII important in the ratification of the Constitution?

It protected the natural rights of all citizens.

It provided a reasonable way for 9 of the 13 states to ratify the Constitution.

It limited the power of the states.

It created three branches of government.

4) Choose the THREE authors of The Federalist Papers.

John Jay

Richard Lee

James Madison

George Washington

Benjamin Franklin

Alexander Hamilton

5) Select the best answer.

The Federalist Papers were ___ ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

newspaper articles written under the pseudonym of Publius supporting

85 essays written by members of the Second Continental Congress who opposed

written speeches by those Revolutionary leaders who opposed

85 essays written by members of the Constitutional Convention who supported

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1) Amending the Articles required all of the states’ approval while amending the Constitution required approval from only nine states.

2) The Constitution lacked a bill of rights.
Anti-Federalists opposed the concentration of power in a central national government instead of in the states.

3) It provided a reasonable way for 9 of the 13 states to ratify the Constitution.

4) John Jay; James Madison; Alexander Hamilton.

5) newspaper articles written under the pseudonym of Publius supporting (ratification of the U.S. Constitution).