U.S. History Chapter 3

Under the articles of confederation Congress' major achievements included its settling of western territories and

• Negotiation of commercial treaties
• regulation of trade
• collection of taxes
• enforcement of foreign treaties

delegates at the constitutional convention had to balance states' rights with

• poor farmers worries about taxes
• a system to limit the powers of government 
• the need for a stronger national government
• southern planters reliance on slavery

Which of the following provisions of the constitution establishes a federal system of government?

• power is divided between the national and state governments
• the federal government is divided into 3 branches
• the power of the federal government is limited
• state governments are given less power than the national government

opponents to ratifying the constitution included which of the following groups

• farmers living near the coast
• large landowners
• western farmers far from the coast
• merchants and artisans

to overcome opposition to ratifying the constitution in Massachusetts federalists promised to support

• reserving power for the states
• naming washington president
• allowing states to veto acts of congress
• adding a bill of rights to the constitution

Proposed  the great compromise

• Roger Sherman
• alexander hamilton
• George Washington
• Edmund Randolf

Delegate from New York who wrote most of the Federalist essays

• Ben Franklin
• James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton
• Federalists

First president under the constitution

• John Hancock
• Ben Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

Concerned about the amount of power states would have if a constitution was ratified

• Federalists
• Anti-Federalists
• Western Farmers
• Merchants and Artisans

Governor of Virginia who presented Virginia Plan at the convention

• Edmund Randolph
• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Lee
• William Patterson