Chapter 8 Flashcards
How was slavery an obvious contradiction to the principles of the American republic?
Americans claimed to be fighting for freedom, but still enslaved others.
The most important issue not yet addressed when the Constitutional Convention adjourned was:
the absence of a national bill of rights
James Madison’s Virginia Plan proposed:
representatives to both houses apportioned according to the population, instead of each state having a single vote.
The Articles of Confederation were adopted when states gave up their:
claims to western lands.
Ratification of the new Constitution:
required only nine states, and special ratifying conventions for approval
The proposed new Constitution of 1787 called for the election of a president by ________.
an electoral college
The three-fifths rule concerned the issue of ________.
whether to count slaves as part of the population
The “Antifederalists” arguments included all of the following EXCEPT:
feared that the government too much favored common people over the “well-born.”
Shays’s Rebellion involved ________.
discontented farmers in Massachusetts
The Articles of Confederation could not be amended until all thirteen state legislatures approved.
True
Which of the following was NOT proposed by William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan? (
a two-house national legislature, giving the federal government too much power.
The Northwest Ordinance laid out the requirements for western territories to become states.
True
The essays known collectively as The Federalist Papers called for the ratification of the Constitution.
True
The compromise that resolved the dispute between the large and the small states included each of the following EXCEPT ________.
the slave trade would end immediately
The new constitution provided Congress with all of the following EXCEPT:
veto power over state legislation
