Chapter 7 A More Perfect Union

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

What was the single territory that was created out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River?

• Mississippi Territory

• Northwest Territory

• Ohio Territory

• Western Territory

The Americans formed a republic, a government in which citizens rule through...

• kingships

• appointed representatives

• elected representatives

• monarchies

At the beginning, Constitutional Convention delegates voted to work toward a new national government based on the

• Virginia Plan

• New York Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Northwest Territory Plan

Convention delegates broke the deadlock between large and small states when they approved

• Washington's Compromise

• the Three-Fifths Compromise

• the Two-Thirds Compromise

• the Great Compromise

People who favored local government controlled more closely by the people, were called

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• the Electoral Collage

• Framers

Men who supported the Constitution were called

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• the Electoral College

The system that keeps any one branch of government from gaining too much power, is called

• the Electoral College

• checks and balances

• Federalism

• compromise

Those who opposed the Constitution feared the national government would

• limit the number of new states

• limit trade

• require religion to be practiced

• take away rights from people

The branch of government that deals with the court system is called the

• constitutional branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• legislative branch