Constitution Day 4

Established self-government at Plymouth is to Mayflower Compact As first form of government in U.S. is to ______________

• Thomas Jefferson

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance

Forbidding colonists from crossing Appalachians is to Proclamation of 1763

As allowing a territory to become an equal state is to __________

• Thomas Jefferson

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance

Spanish helper of the Patriot cause is to Bernardo de Galvez

As French helper of the Patriot cause is to ______________

• Thomas Jefferson

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance

Author of Common Sense is to Thomas Paine

As composer of Declaration of Independence is to _______________

• Thomas Jefferson

• Marquis de Lafayette

• Articles of Confederation

• Northwest Ordinance

The Virginia Plan proposed -

• All states should be allowed two votes in congress regardless of a state’s population

• The southern states should be allowed to count their slaves towards their total population count

• Allowing states with larger territories to have more votes in congress since they were governing larger

  populated areas

• The capital of the United States be established along the northern border of Virginia

One reason the delegates at the Constitutional Convention agreed to the Great Compromise was it-

• Provided a way for states in the north and south to have the same amount of representatives

• Created a bicameral legislature that appeased the small and large states

• Allowed slaves to be counted in the population of a state

• Gave the Legislative Branch power over the Executive Branch

The slave holding southern states yearned to count slaves towards their population so that -

• Slaves could be given citizen status

• Slaves would be a tax break for land owners

• They would have a larger population which would give them more representatives in congress

• The British would recognize America as a country with a larger population than theirs

The 3/5th Compromise did not fully satisfy delegates from northern states because-

• All slaves would be counted towards the population of a state

• 3 out of 5 federal legislators would serve life terms

• Plantation owners would now have less power in government than northern merchants

• They did not believe slaves should be counted when determining the number of representatives from each

  state

What does this list suggest about the drafters of the Articles of Confederation?

• They did not want a judicial system based upon that of Great Britain.

• They feared that a strong central government would abuse its power.

• They were uncertain that democracy would continue to be the best type of government.

• They did not think that state governments could provide for the general welfare.

How did the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance affect U.S. expansion?

• By funding a transportation network in uninhabited regions

• By establishing a process for territories to govern themselves

• By promoting the growth of southern plantation economies

• By creating a national bank to loan money to land investors