Building a New Nation Quiz #3

Which of the following correctly completes the blank box in the graphic organizer?

• The United States adopts the Monroe Doctrine.

• Daniel Shays and his supporters try to seize a federal armory.

• The United States forms the House of Burgesses.

• Nathaniel Bacon and his supporters set fire to the Virginia capital.

Read the text from the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Then answer the question that follows.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

How does this amendment reflect the beliefs of Anti-Federalists?

• Anti-Federalists feared that rights granted to individuals under the Constitution might be violated by state governments.

• Anti-Federalists feared that individual state constitutions would grant citizens rights that were not protected at the federal level.

• Anti-Federalists supported empowering the states at the expense of the federal government as they believed the states could better protect the rights of the people.

• Anti-Federalists supported expanding the power of the federal government relative to the states because a powerful executive was needed to protect the people.

The Bill of Rights was meant to preserve a number of key rights valued by the people and demonstrates the great care taken by the Founders to ensure that

• government power would always remain limited.

• the United States would be viewed as a world leader.

• the people would always have more power than the government.

• no one branch would ever have dominance over the other branches.

In order to "insure domestic tranquility," as established in the Preamble, the Framers of the US Constitution needed to make certain that the US Constitution was successful in which of the following areas?

• establishing effective countermeasures to potential foreign threats

• balancing power between state governments and the federal government

• limiting the rights and freedoms of citizens so as to prevent political division.

• allowing the government to acquire the revenue necessary to operate efficiently.

Under the terms of the Northwest Ordinance, the United States gained land that would become part of which THREE of these states?

• Delaware

• Illinois

• Indiana

• Michigan

• Missouri