Founding Principles

What was the name of the agreement between Northern and Southern states over how slaves should be counted?

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• The Great Compromise

Which plan proposed representation based only on a state's population?

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• The Great Compromise

The goal of the 1786 rebellion led by Daniel Shays was to close the courts so that:

• judges could not send debtors to jail.

• judges could not give land to Native Americans.

• judges could stop the sale of illegal goods.

• judges could not take farmers' land.

Anti-Federalists opposed ratifying the Constitution because it didn't

• abolish slavery

• explicitly denounce King George III

• encourage paying foreign debts

• guarantee individual rights

Which agreement helped to improve relations between Northern and Southern states while drafting the Constitution?

• Missouri Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Three-Fifths Compromise

The Northwest Ordinance ____________________

• was a plan for the orderly settlement of the Northwest Territories.

• was a law promoting slavery in the Northwest Territories.

• was a plan to move Native Americans farther west.

• was a plan to buy Texas from the Spanish.

The Federalists managed to make the Anti-Federalists agree to ratify the Constitution by promising

• the President would serve for life

• amendments guaranteeing basic freedoms (Bill of Rights)

• slavery would always exist in the new Republic

• states could veto any presidential decisions

Madison, Hamilton, and Jay wrote

• Common Sense

• The Communist Manifesto

• The Magna Carta

• The Federalist Papers

The Anti-Federalists opposed ratifying the Constitution because:

• it gave power to the wealthy elite

• it gave more power to the federal government that they believed the states should have

• it took away individual liberties

One of the main purposes of the Articles of Confederation was __________________.

• to guarantee a strong national navy.

• to guarantee states would retain independent powers.

• to make national taxation possible.

• to annex as much Spanish territory as possible.