Do Not write on this test—write your answers on the separately provided
answer sheet.
Part I: From the list provided below select the letter that best describes the
numbered statement. Each letter is only used once. Each question is worth
one point.
1. He is known as the “Father of the Constitution.”
2. The representatives from the 12 states that attended the Constitutional Convention
were called this.
3. Who is a 3/5 of a person?
4. The first paragraph of the Constitution is called this.
5. The group of delegates who did not trust the common man to vote for leaders.
6. The name of this unit.
7. The oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention.
8. This war gained our independence from Great Britain.
9. The name of the meeting where the new Constitution was written.
10. Only original state not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
11. The Constitutional Convention was held in this city.
12. This established guidelines for admitting new states into the Union.
13. The years of troubles from 1783 to 1789 when the Articles of Confederation were
in effect is called this.
14. A government that is over and coordinates other governments (like state
governments) is called this.
15. At the time the Articles of Confederation were in effect this was the western
boundary of the United States.
16. The oldest national charter of government in the world that is still in effect.
17. Before the Constitution could go into effect 9 states had to approve the new plan
of government, this was called what?
18. Settlement on each side in which each side agrees to give up some of its demands.
19. It means to change or add to something.
20. Another name for the Articles of Confederation.
21. Supporters of the Constitution were called this.
22. A skillful writer who gave the Constitution its final wording.
23. Opponents of the Constitution were called this.
24. He was the president of the Constitutional Convention.
25. A former Revolutionary war officer who led a farmers’ rebellion.
a. George Washington
d. Daniel Shay
g. Anti-Federalists
j. Central Government
m. Revolutionary War
p. The Critical Period
b.
e.
h.
k.
n.
q.
Daniel Shay
Preamble
James Madison
Gouverneur Morris
Rhode Island
Benjamin Franklin
c. 1st Constitution
f. Amend
i. Compromise
l. Federalists
o. Slave
r. Delegates
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s.
v.
x.
z.
Aristocrats
U.S. Constitution
Moving Toward Freedom
Mississippi River
t. Philadelphia
u. Ratification
w. The Northwest Ordinance
y. Constitutional Convention
Part II: Answer True or False on your answer sheet for each statement.
Each question is worth one point.
1. Under the Articles of Confederation laws were not always enforced because there
was no president to see that they were carried out.
2. Under the Articles of Confederation many disputes between states and between
citizens of different states went unsettled because there were no federal courts to
hear the cases.
3. Money in one state was different from money in another state.
4. Slavery was forbidden in the Northwest Territory.
5. The Supreme Court decided whether a territory could become a state.
6. The Northwest Ordinance established a democratic form of government.
7. Under the Articles of Confederation there were three branches of government.
8. Ohio was a state that was part of the Northwest Territory.
9. The Northwest Ordinance was the most important accomplishment of the
government under the Articles of Confederation.
10. The delegates at the Constitutional Convention avoided deciding the issue of
slavery.
11. The Articles of Confederation could not be amended because one of the states did
not send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
12. Under the Articles of Confederation amendments required the approval of all 13
states.
13. Under the Articles of Confederation each state had three votes in Congress.
14. Under the Articles of Confederation all males were allowed to vote.
15. The Constitutional Convention was originally called to talk about ways of
revising the Articles of Confederation.
16. Thomas Jefferson owned more than one hundred slaves and he did not set them
free.
17. Under the current Constitution all states must agree in order for the Constitution
to be amended.
18. The Preamble to the current Constitution states that it was written in order to form
a more perfect union.
19. John Rutledge who freed all but one of his slaves said that slavery was wrong.
20. George Washington is known as the “Father of the Constitution.”
21. Under the Articles of Confederation each state had the right to make treaties with
foreign countries.
22. Under the Articles of Confederation Congress had the power to require the
payment of taxes.
23. Under the Articles of Confederation it was difficult to get new laws passed.
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24. After the Revolutionary War, many pioneers crossed the Appalachian Mountains
and settled in the Northwest Territory.
25. For many years, seven states along the Atlantic Coast had claimed that their
western boundaries extended to the Mississippi River and beyond.
Part III: On your answer sheet write the name of the compromise worked
out for each of the five major disagreements at the Constitutional
Convention. Each question is worth five points.
1. Large States: We favor the Virginia Plan in which representation in Congress is
based on population. Small States: We support the New Jersey Plan in which
each state has the same number of representatives in Congress.
2. Southern States: When a count of the population is taken to determine how many
representatives each state gets in Congress, slaves should be included in the total.
Northern States: Slaves should not be counted because they are not citizens and
have no political rights.
3. Slave States: Congress should not be able to stop us from importing slaves to
work on our plantations. Free States: Limits should be placed on the number of
slaves being brought into the United States.
4. Agricultural States: Congress should not be able to tax imports and exports.
Manufacturing States: Congress should tax imports so that foreign goods won’t
be cheaper than our manufactured products.
5. Aristocrats: The common man cannot be trusted to choose capable leaders.
Democrats: We oppose a rich man’s government. The president and members of
Congress should be elected by the voters.
Part IV: On your answer sheet write five failures under the Articles of
Confederation and explain why it was a failure. Worth twenty-five points.
EXTRA CREDIT: YOU WILL BE GIVEN ONE EXTRA POINT FOR
EACH QUESTION THAT YOU ANSWER CORRECTLY.
1. How many delegates attended the Constitutional Convention?
2. What state was considered a small state at the time of the Constitutional
Convention but is now considered a “large” state?
3. What years were the Articles of Confederation in effect?
4. What country was the United States deeply in debt to after the American
Revolution?
5. What are the first 7 words of the Preamble to the Constitution?
6. What year did the 2nd United States Constitution go into effect?
7. Name two present-day states that were in the Northwest Territory.
8. Name two present-day states that were in the Southwest Territory.
9. Name the state that Shay’s Rebellion took place in.
10. Name 2 of the 7 states that currently have just one representative.
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