CONSTITUTION PRACTICE 1

These documents led most directly to which of the following?

• the Great Compromise creating two chambers of Congress apportioned in different ways

• the Missouri Compromise keeping an even balance of free and slave states and providing rules for slavery in the western territories

• Marbury v. Madison establishing the principle of judicial review

• agreement over the addition of the Bill of Rights in order to secure ratification of the Constitution

Both of these documents supported which of the following?

• creation of a bicameral legislature

• increasing the weak federal power of the Articles of Confederation

• Congressional representation in proportion to a state's population

• Congressional representation equal to three-fifths of a state's enslaved population

A historian could best use these documents to study which of the following?

• arguments in Congress over the expansion slavery

• federal legislation regulating interstate commerce

• competing interests at the Constitutional Convention

• support for the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress

What was a result of the Great Compromise during the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• creating a two-house legislature

• banning slavery in Southern states

• requiring that the president have a cabinet

• giving the Supreme Court the power to hear cases involving states

Which issue did the Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan, and the Great Compromise address at the Constitutional Convention (1787)?

• the power to regulate interstate commerce

• the number of justices on the Supreme Court

• a system for electing the president

• a method of determining state representation in Congress

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, supporters of the Virginia plan and supporters of the New Jersey plan differed over the method for

• determining congressional representation

• selecting the president's cabinet

• adopting the amendment process

• giving powers to the executive branch

At the Constitutional Convention (1787), which issue was resolved by the Great Compromise?

• method of electing the president

• power of Congress to tax exports

• regulation of interstate commerce

• representation of states in Congress

The Great Compromise enabled delegates at the Constitutional Convention (1787) to

• establish the principle of popular sovereignty in the territories

• give Congress the exclusive right to declare war if the nation is attacked

• protect the interests of states with small populations and states with large populations

• provide for the indirect election of the president through the electoral college

At the Constitutional Convention, the delegates agreed that Congress should have the power to

• declare laws unconstitutional

• levy and collect taxes

• select the president

• eliminate slavery in the states

The Great Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention resulted in the

• formation of the Supreme Court

• creation of a bicameral legislature

• development of a two-party system

• ban on the importation of enslaved Africans