CONSTITUTION PRE-TEST
1) Antifederalist
a) A government in which the citizens rule
through elected representatives
2) Articles of Confederation
3) Checks and Balances
b)
The idea that governments should be based on the
consent of the people
c)
The document that set up the post Revolutionary
War government.
d)
James Madison proposed a bicameral system in
which representation would be based on
population.
e)
William Patterson proposal that the legislature
would be 1 house with equal representation.
f)
Roger Sherman proposal that the legislature
would consist of two houses with the upper house
having equal representation and the lower house
having it’s representation based on population.
g)
h)
People who supported the Constitution.
4) Federalist
5) Great Compromise
6) New Jersey Plan
7) Republic
8) Republicanism
J)
9) Virginia Plan
Answer the following T/F
10) The Constitution needed to be
ratified by the states.
11) The key states needed to ratify
the Constitution were Virginia
and Maryland.
12) The first state to ratify the
Constitution was Rhode Island.
13) The biggest argument against the
Constitution was that it included
no Bill of Rights.
14) The Constitution was signed
September 17, 1787.
15) The United States is a Direct
Democracy.
16) The main problem with the
Articles of Confederation is that
it couldn’t enforce laws.
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People who were not convinced the Constitution
was good enough.
A system in which the main parts of a government
has safeguards to protect it from one part of the
government gaining too much power.
Answer the following
17) The main reason that the southern states wanted slaves to count toward their
population is
a. When it comes down to it slaves are people to
b. If representation is going to be based on population counting slaves would
give them more representatives in the government
c. Tax revenue was based on population so the more slaves the better the tax
break
d. By counting slaves states would become more powerful in the Senate.
18) The 3/5th’s Compromise was based on counting
a. Land area
b. Who could vote
c. Slaves
d. Women
19) The new Constitution provided for
a. Two branches of government
b. A bicameral executive branch
c. Equal representation in the Legislature
d. An Executive, Legislative and Judicial branch with equal power.
20) The Senate reviewing the President’s nomination to the Supreme Court is an
example of:
a. Judicial Review
b. Senate oversight
c. Checks and Balances
d. Constitutional revocation
21) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for all of the following except:
a. The dividing of the western lands into territories
b. A means for the new lands to form it’s own government
c. A survey of the lands west of the Appalachians
d. A means for new lands to become a state
22) Under the Articles of Confederation the National Government could do all of the
following except:
a. Make treaties with foreign countries
b. Declare War
c. Commence foreign trade
d. Create a national currency