Chapter 5--Lesson 3 Quiz Review

What change to the structure of the government did the Virginia Plan suggest?

• creating a unicameral, or one house, legislative branch of government

• giving the federal government supreme power and a bicameral legislature

• giving both large and small states equal power in the government process

• creating a presidential office where the leader would have sole control of the nation

How did the delegates resolve the debate over how slaves should factor into representation in government?

• They decided that each individual slave should count as one person when determining representation.

• They decided that slaves were not citizens and should not be counted when determining representation.

• They reached a compromise that allowed every ten slaves to be counted as one person.

• They reached a compromise that allowed each individual slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person.

In what way did northerners and southerners disagree about issue of slavery at the Constitutional Convention?

• Northerners wanted slavery to be abolished under the Constitution.

• Northerners wanted slaves to be included in the voting process.

• Southerners wanted slaves to be counted as part of their state populations.

• Southerners wanted slavery to extend into the western territories.

Which compromise during the Constitutional Convention, decided to omit the words “slave” and “slavery?”

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• The “Downtown Brown” Compromise

• Commerce Compromise

What part of the Great Compromise was influenced by the New Jersey Plan?

• bicameral legislature

• unicameral legislature

• equal representation for states in upper house

• representation in lower house based on population

What is controlled by the system of checks and balances?

• power of larger states

• branches of government

• the finance system

• voting rights

Which of the following is a power reserved only to the states?

• to establish and maintain schools

• to regulate foreign trade

• to borrow money

• to declare war

Under the Constitution, only the national government of the U.S. has the power to

• maintain law and order

• establish foreign policy

• create marriage laws

• establish local governments

Who presented the New Jersey Plan to the Constitutional Convention?

• Roger Sherman

• James Wilson

• William Paterson

• Edmund Randolph

Why did the framers of the Constitution create a system of checks and balances?

• to outline the powers held by each branch of government

• to keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful

• to give the people an opportunity to control the branches of government

• to strengthen the powers held by each branch of government