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- Questions
- False statement
- The Articles could be changed by a simple majority of the thirteen states.
- Statements
- The Articles could be changed by a simple majority of the thirteen states.
- Under the Articles the national government could not impose taxes on citizens.
- Under the Articles each state had one vote no matter how many delegates it sent.
- False statement
- The Articles set up a national court system to settle disputes.
- Statements
- The government could declare war but had to ask the states for soldiers.
- The Articles set up a national court system to settle disputes.
- The currency it issued, called the Continental, was largely worthless.
- False statement
- State legislatures, not elected conventions, voted on approving the Constitution.
- Statements
- Nine of the thirteen states had to approve the Constitution before it took effect.
- Anti-Federalists pressed hard for a bill of rights to be added.
- State legislatures, not elected conventions, voted on approving the Constitution.
- False statement
- Troops sent by the national government put down the uprising led by Daniel Shays.
- Statements
- Troops sent by the national government put down the uprising led by Daniel Shays.
- The uprising began among heavily indebted farmers in western Massachusetts.
- The unrest pushed members of Congress to call for a revision of the Articles.
- Instructions
- Tap the one statement in each set of three that does not hold up.
_Source: OpenStax American Government 3e, section 2.2 The Articles of Confederation_