Creating the Constitution Test Review

Who took detailed notes at the Constitutional Convention

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• James Madison

What is NOT a goal in the Preamble

• ensure domestic tranquility

• freedom of speech

• form a more perfect union

• provide a common defense

Why did the anti-federalists oppose the constitution?

• it did not protect individual rights

• it did not give the central government enough power

• it favored the British too much

• it did not include a system of checks and balances

Who's uprising showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

• Roger Sherman

• Patrick Henry

• Daniel Shays

• Benjamin Franklin

What said you needed 5,000 free settlers and a total population of 60,000 to become a state?

• Northern Ordinance of 1770

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Amendment VII

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Who wrote the Great Compromise?

• Samuel Adams

• Roger Sherman

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine

Who wanted the Constitution ratified as it was?

• Federalists

• Anti-federalists

• Patriots

• The British

The Constitution had to be ratified by how many states before it would go into effect?

• All 13

• 11 of 13

• 5 of 13

• 9 of 13

What Branch makes up the courts and interprets laws?

• Legislative

• Judicial

• Executive

• States

Who presided over the Constitutional Convention?

• John Adams

• George Washington

• James Madison

• George Mason