Quiz- Creating Constitution/Ratification

Question 1

What is the word for a (single house) legislative body?

Answer 1

• Unicameral

Question 2

Who has sole authority to govern the country?

Answer 2

• Congress

Question 3

What we’re the powers granted to government under the Articles of Confederation? (7)

Answer 3

• Declare war and make peace
• Make treaties with foreign countries
• Establish an army and navy
• Appoint high-ranking military officials
• Requisition, print, and borrow money
• Establish weights and measures
• Hear disputes among the states related to trade or boundaries

Question 4

What we’re the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (powers denied to government)? (6)

Answer 4

• No power to raise funds for army/navy
• No power to tax, impose tariffs, or collect duties
• No executive branch to enforce laws
• No power to control trade among the states
• No power to force states to honor obligations
• No power to regulate the value of currency

Question 5

What needed to be had for the Northwest Ordinance to be valid? (3)

Answer 5

• Population is greater than the smallest established state
• Governer
• Must have state constitution

Question 6

Who is Daniel Shay?

Answer 6

• A Farmer who, because of inflation, did not receive the pay he earned fighting in the war.

Question 7

What did Daniel Shay create?

Answer 7

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 8

What is the protest that gathered farmers together to show their anger of the situation that they go into debt and the states try to take their land?

Answer 8

• Shay’s Rebellion

Question 9

What is the Plan that called for a new national government in which large states liked the plan while the small states did not?

Answer 9

• The Virginia Plan

Question 10

What is the plan in which legislature has one house in which the small states liked the plan while larger states hate it?

Answer 10

• New Jersey Plan

Question 11

What is it called when the legislature had two houses, the House of Representatives and a Senate?

Answer 11

• The Great Compromise

Question 12

What was the House based off of?

What was the Senate based off of?

Answer 12

• House: on population of each state

- Senate: two senators per each state

Question 13

What made each slave worth 3/5 of a vote in deciding numbers in House of Representatives?

Answer 13

• Three-Fifths Compromise

Question 14

What is it called to be proponents of a weak national government?

Answer 14

• Anti-Federalists

Question 15

What did Anti-Federalists want?

Answer 15

• No ratification of the new Constitution

Question 16

What is it called to be proponents of the Constitution?

Answer 16

• Federalists

Question 17

What did the Federalists want?

Answer 17

• Ratification of the Constitution

Question 18

Who wrote the Federalist papers? (3)

Answer 18

• James Madison
• John Jay
• Alexander Hamilton

Question 19

What is the collection of 85 articles written to convince New York State to approve of the Constitution called?

Answer 19

• Federalist Papers