FINAL EXAM UNIT 2 REVIEW

The states contributed to rising inflation following the Revolutionary War by

• Placing tariffs on interstate commerce.
• Collecting all overdue taxes.
• Using gold and silver reserves to pay debts.
• Printing large amounts of paper money.

The main cause of Shays’ Rebellion was the

• Corruption of wealthy leaders, which divided the local government.
• Collection of taxes on land to pay off war debts, which hurt farmers.
• Overproduction of worthless paper money, which slowed the economy.
• Inability of the Congress to regulate trade, which led to unemployment

The original purpose of the Constitutional Convention held in May 1787 in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall was to

• Grant citizenship to free African Americans.
• Draft a Constitution of the United States.
• Distribute power equally among the states.
• Improve the Articles of Confederation.

The Three-Fifths Compromise

• Freed three-fifths of slaves in the southern states.
• Granted three-fifths of freed slaves the right to vote.
• Determined how many representatives a state would have in the Congress by counting three-fifths of the state’s slave population.
• Decided to give an extra delegate to each state that had banned the slave trade, giving northern states a three-fifths majority in the Congress.

Who drafted the list of proposed constitutional amendments that became the Bill of Rights?

• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• Thomas Paine
• James Madison

The 10 constitutional amendments made to the constitution in 1791 were called 

• The Rights of Colonists.
• The Bill of Rights.
• Give the people an opportunity to control the branches of government
• Strengthen the powers held by each branch of government.

What do the Bill of Rights do? 

• Outline the powers held by each branch of government.
• Keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
• Protects U. S. citizen’s individual liberties.
• Strengthen the powers held by each branch of government.

The framers of the Constitution created a system of checks and balances to

• Outline the powers held by each branch of government.
• Keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
• Give the people an opportunity to control the branches of government.
• Strengthen the powers held by each branch of government.

The framers of the Constitution granted legislative power to the

• Congress.
• President.
• Supreme Court.
• State governments.

Under the Virginia Plan the structure of the national government would have been changed by the creation of a/an 

• unicameral legislature with an equal number of delegates from each state.
• bicameral legislature in which the number of delegates per state would be based on a states’ population.
• strong judiciary with sovereignty over the other two branches of government.
• executive office the leader of which would have sole control of the nation.