STAAR PREP #10

The two chambers of Congress (the US Legislative Branch) are....

• House of Representatives and Assembly 
• Senate and Congress 
• House of Representatives and Senate
• House of Lords and House of Commons

In what chamber of Congress does each state have equal representation? 

• Senate 
• House of Representatives 
• General Assembly 
• House of Commons 

Shays' Rebellion in MA started as a protest against

• unfair taxes and farmers' debt
• the death penalty
• the Revolutionary War
• Native Americans

Which Framer is known as the "Father of the Constitution"?

• George Washington
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Mason

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established

• peace treaties with Native tribes
• townships to sell land in the Northwest Territory
• compromises between large and small states
• governments for the western territories

The Virginia Plan called for representation in Congress based on

• population of each state
• tax revenue from each state
• equal legislators for each state
• slave population of a state

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans were combined in the

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Trade Compromise
• Southern Compromise
• Great Compromise

The Three-Fifths Compromise solved disagreements over 

• repayment of Revolutionary War debt
• large and small state representation
• representation and taxation of slave states
• continuing the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The president is chosen every 4 years by

• representative electors from each state
• the national popular vote
• two-thirds vote of Congress
• three-fourths vote in a states convention

After the Constitutional Convention, Federalists supported a

• strong federal republic
• bill of rights added to the Constitution
• weak president under Congress' control
• greater role for the states in the government