Chapter 5-Creating a Constitution

Question 1

How many branches of government did the Articles of Confederation government have?

Answer 1

one

Question 2

Articles of Confederation government could make treaties, declare war, and raise armies but could not _____

Answer 2

Pay for anything because it had no power to directly tax.

Question 3

Articles of Confederation government could not ______ so each state started taxing their own imports.

Answer 3

regular commerce

Question 4

Articles of Confederation government could not ____ so each state had their own currency.

Answer 4

Print money

Question 5

Articles of Confederation government’s only success was the ____.

Answer 5

Northwest Ordance

Question 6

the territory of the Old Northwest excluded any rights of ______ to become established there.

Answer 6

Slavery

Question 7

Northwest Ordnance established a process where new states would _____.

Answer 7

be created in equality with the original states.

Question 8

Who was acting as a foreign minister to France during the crisis of the Articles of Confederation government?

Answer 8

Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

This was caused by the Massachusetts legislature raising taxes and the Confederation government having no authority to suppress it.

Answer 9

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 10

The first attempt to revise the governmental plan was suppose to meet in ____ but not enough states sent representatives.

Answer 10

Annapolis, Maryland

Question 11

What one state does not show for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787?

Answer 11

Rhode Island

Question 12

Who was elected chairman of the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 12

George Washington

Question 13

To avoid public criticism of the Constitutional Convention, _____ was required of all delegates.

Answer 13

Secret negotiations

Question 14

____ takes notes during the Constitutional Convention and thus is seem by many as the Father of the Constitution.

Answer 14

James Madison

Question 15

Who signed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and The Constitution?

Answer 15

Benjamin Franklin

Question 16

What were the two plans presented at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 16

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Question 17

This plan of government favored the large states.

Answer 17

Virginia Plan

Question 18

This plan of government only slightly altered the Articles of Confederation to allow taxation.

Answer 18

New Jersey Plan

Question 19

Who proposed the New Jersey plan.

Answer 19

Patterson

Question 20

Who proposed the Virginia Plan.

Answer 20

Madison

Question 21

List four compromises found in the new Constitution of 1787.

Answer 21

Federalism
Great Compromise
Three Fifths Compromise
Amendment process

Question 22

This is when both state and national levels of government share powers.

Answer 22

Federalism

Question 23

Sherman’s Connecticut Compromise established the ____ based on population and the ____ based on equal representation for each state.

Answer 23

House of Representative-based on population

Senate-based on two senators per state

Question 24

What compromise centered on slavery.

Answer 24

Three Fifths Compromise

Question 25

In the amendment process, _____ of Congress must pass amendments and ____ of the states must ratify them to become part of the Constitution.

Answer 25

2/3 of Congress

3/4 of the States

Question 26

list the three branches of government and their primary responsibilities as outlined by the Constitution.

Answer 26

Legislative-Writes the Law
Executive-Enforces the Law
Judicial-Interprets the Law

Question 27

What body makes up each branch of government?

Answer 27

Legislative-Congress
Executive-Office of the President
Judicial-Supreme Court

Question 28

What are two checks that the Legislative Branch have on the other branches of government?

Answer 28

Over ride a veto

impeaches judges and president

Question 29

What are two checks that the Executive Branch have on the other branches of government?

Answer 29

Vetoes laws

appoints judges

Question 30

What are two checks that the Judaical Branch have on the other branches of government?

Answer 30

appointed for life and cannot be removed

rejects laws as unconstitutional

Question 31

List five Federalists

Answer 31

George Washington
James Madison
John Jay
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton

Question 32

List five Anti-Federalists

Answer 32

George Mason
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson

Question 33

Most Anti-Federalists were from what part of the country?

Answer 33

Western farmers

Question 34

Anti-Federalists refused to accept the New Constitution of 1787 unless there was a ____.

Answer 34

Bill of Rights attached.