Constitution Test

The Three-Fifths Compromise resolved the issue of

• how enslaved people were to be counted in the population.

• whether larger states could have more representatives in Congress.

• whether Congress would have one or two houses.

• how many representatives each state would have in the Senate.

Which of the following was designed to ensure that the President would not gain dictatorial powers over government?

• the system of checks and balances

• the elastic clause

• the electoral college

• the Cabinet

Shays’ Rebellion grew out of

• protest against strong government under the Articles of Confederation.

• unrest among Massachusetts farmers over taxes and the Article of Confederation being to weak to address the issue.

• dissatisfaction with the outcome of the Annapolis Convention and a political uprising to create a new constitution.

• the widespread desire for more power for state governments and less power for the national government.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were initially supposed to

• throw out the Articles of Confederation and start all over.

• write new constitutions for the states they represented.

• amend the Articles of Confederation.

• determine whether slavery would be allowed to continue.

The system of checks and balances is designed to ensure that

• no one branch of government will gain too much power.

• the Senate will not be controlled too much by the people.

• the President will be elected directly by the people.

• state legislatures will share power with the Congress.

Following the War for Independence, most Americans wanted the power of government to be held by

• state governments.

• the Continental Congress.

• George Washington.

• the courts.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government was

• strong and unified.

• headed by a king.

• weak and consisted of a loose alliance of states.

• divided into three branches.

James Madison is called the “Father of the Constitution” because he

• wrote almost the entire Constitution by himself without help.

• strongly influenced and shaped Constitution with ideas from Enlightenment.

• freed his slaves to prove his commitment to freedom.

• proposed the Great Compromise and the 3/5 Compromise.

According to the Great Compromise, the number of representatives in the Senate would be

• the same number for every state (equal)

• based on a state’s population.

• two for large states, and one for small states.

• affected by the size of a state’s enslaved population.

According to the Constitution, then number of representatives in the House of Representatives would be

• the same number for every state (equal)

• based on a state’s population.

• two for large states, and one for small states.

• affected by the size of a state’s enslaved population.