History Test 2

Question 1

Why did many states choose to create a government with bicameral legislatures?

Answer 1

They feared giving the common people too much power

Question 2

What did the British do to harm the United States’ economy in the years following the Revolution?

Answer 2

They banned American ships from trading with the West Indies

Question 3

What was the purpose of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

Answer 3

To create a local government and encourage settlement of the new territories

Question 4

What best describes the type of government proposed in the New Jersey Plan?

Answer 4

A loose confederation based largely on the Articles of Confederation

Question 5

The Three-Fifths Compromise was created to address?

Answer 5

The difference in population between the North and the South states

Question 6

Which of these points did supporters of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan both agree on?

Answer 6

Congress should have the ability to impose taxes

Question 7

What best describes the Antifederalists’ view of the new Constitution?

Answer 7

They feared it would give the central government too much power

Question 7

What major problems with the Articles of Confederation was the most Constitutional Convention to address?

Answer 7

Congress’ inability to levy taxes or regulate interstate commerce

Question 8

What were the Federalist Papers?

Answer 8

A series of essays written in support of the new Constitution

Question 9

Which principle of the Constitution divides power between the state and federal governments?

Answer 9

Federalism

Question 9

What best summarizes the Constitution’s underlying principle of popular sovereignty?

Answer 9

The government derives its political authority from the people

Question 10

One reason leaders in the United states called for a Constitutional Convention was because?

Answer 10

Congress could not regulate interstate commerce

Question 11

Which explains why Federalists promised to add a Bill of Rights once the Constitution was ratified?

Answer 11

They wanted to assure Antifederalists that the new federal government would respect individual liberties

Question 12

In what way does popular sovereignty ensure that the power of the government is limited?

Answer 12

Elections allow people to replace public officials who do not carry out the will of the people

Question 13

Which of the following countries closed off the port of New Orleans to trade with the new United States?

Answer 13

Spain

Question 14

Changing the rules to require only 9 of 13 states to support it was one way that Constitutional Convention delegates made sure that the new Constitution would be…

Answer 14

Ratified

Question 15

What did Federalists promise to create in order to convince Antifederalists to support the Constitution?

Answer 15

A bill of rights

Question 16

The ratification of the Constitution by Virginia and New York…

Answer 16

was necessary if the new nation was to have any hope of succeeding

Question 17

How did the Antifederalists affect the organization of the U.S. government under the Constitution?

Answer 17

They ensured that people’s individual liberties were protected by the Bill of Rights

Question 18

The ability of the president to veto laws passed by Congress and the ability of Congress to override that veto with a two-thirds majority vote are examples of what constitutional principle?

Answer 18

checks and balances

Question 19

What was the agreement that allowed the Constitution to be written using aspects of both the Virginia Plan as well as the New Jersey Plan?

Answer 19

The Great compromise

Question 20

Which term would best describe a person who supported a strong federal government?

Answer 20

Federalist

Question 21

An example of our indirect democracy, this group elects the President of the United States?

Answer 21

Electoral College

Question 22

Which document officially created the 1st federal government of the United States?

Answer 22

Articles of Confederation

Question 22

Why did southern delegates at the Constitutional Convention want slaves counted in the population?

Answer 22

It would give the southern states greater representation in Congress

Question 23

Which was the only state to not take part in the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 23

Rhode island

Question 24

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
–Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
Which constitutional principle is expressed in the quotation?

Answer 24

Popular Sovereignty

Question 25

According to the map, which is one reason that the federal government feared that settlers in the Northwest Territory might become part of the Spanish empire??

Answer 25

Spanish territory bordered the western edge of the Northwest Territory

Question 26

The diagram best illustrates which of the following concepts?

Answer 26

Separation of Powers

Question 27

Based on the diagram, which plan gave the advantage to the states with the smaller populations?

Answer 27

New Jersey Plan

Question 28

“Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.”
–Articles of Confederation, Article II
This excerpt from the Articles of confederation indicates that its authors were?

Answer 28

Unwilling to transfer too much power to the national government

Question 28

“What have you been contending for these ten years past? LIberty! What is Liberty? The power of governing yourselves. If you adopt this Constitution, have you this power? No: you give it into the hands of a set of men who live one thousand miles distant from you.”
–James Lincoln
Based on this quote, it can be inferred that James Lincoln would have mostly likely supported what?

Answer 28

a strong states rights view

Question 29

The information demonstrates the…

Answer 29

Constitution saw more opposition in states that ratified later than states that ratified earlier

Question 30

One of the leaders of the Constitutional Convention he authorized the Virginia Plan as well as the Bill of Rights

Answer 30

James Madison

Question 31

Citing a lack of a Bill of Rights, he was once of three delegates

Answer 31

George Mason

Question 32

Author of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 he set the precedent for future statehood

Answer 32

Thomas jefferson

Question 33

Oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention he played a large role in the Great Compromise

Answer 33

Benjamin Franklin

Question 34

He was an Antifederalist who authored the New Jersey Plan

Answer 34

Will Paterson

Question 35

President of both Pennsylvania and Delaware, he was an author of the Articles of Confederation

Answer 35

John Dickenson

Question 36

One of the authors of the Federalist Papers, he was the 1st Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

Answer 36

John jay

Question 37

One of the leaders of the Constitutional Convention he was fiercely a Federalist

Answer 37

Alexander Hamiltion

Question 38

Governor of Massachusetts, he was convinced to ratify the Constitution by believing he would become the 1st vice president

Answer 38

John hancock