Constitution Review Quiz

Which compromise is made up of ideas from the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey plan?

• The Great Compromise
• The three-fifths compromise
• The constitutional compromise
• The big compromise

Shay's Rebellion helped prove what point?

• The federal government needed changing
• The states powers were too weak
• The Articles of Confederation were powerful
• George Washington was a great leader.

One success of the AoC was the Northwest Ordinance. This document was significant because...

• it doubled the size of the U.S.

• it created a process for expanding the Union

• it created the U.S. Post Office

• it kept colonists from expanding westward

What year was the Constitution written?

• 1787

• 1776

• 1803

• 1607

To "amend" means to...

• Fix

• Change

• Break

• Re-Write

The Great Compromise resolved the debate over state representation in the federal government by

• creating a bicameral legislature that represented both the small and large states.
• creating a unicameral legislature.
• giving more power to the large states 
• deciding that each state would have the same number of delegates.

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.

What is federalism?

• a government system where the central government holds supreme power
• a system that keeps each branch of government from obtaining too much power
• the sharing of power between a central government and the states
•  the part of government responsible for making the laws of a country or nation

The 10th Amendment is an example of which principle?

• Federalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Republicanism

• Checks and Balances

George Mason is a famous...

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist