Lesson 8: Creating the Constitution Quiz

The first written plan for government in the United States.

• English Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

A law passed in Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Decree of The Southern Territories

• English Bill of Sale

• Westworld Land Ordinance

A meeting held in Philadelphia in 1787 at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution.

• 1st Continental Congress

• Parliament

• Tennis Court Oath

• Constitutional Convention

A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.

• Magna Carta

• constitution

• Declaration of Government

• Articles of English Surrender

A country governed by elected representatives.

• Dictatorship

• Communist

• Republic

• Authoritarian

The group established by the Constitution to elect the president and vice president, voters in each state choose their electors.

• Voters

• Electoral College

• Canadians

• Presidents

True/False: The NORTHWEST TERRITORY is the region of the U.S. bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes; the region was given to the U.S. by the Treaty of Paris 1783.

• True

• False

True/False: THE GREAT COMPROMISE is the plan of government at the Constitutional Convention that established a two-house Congress. In the House of Representatives, representation from each state is based on state population. In the Senate, each state is represented by two senators.

• True

• False

An agreement made at the Constitutional Convention stating that enslaved persons would be counted as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation in the House of Representatives.

• Madison's Compromise

• Washington's Directive

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

To formally approve a plan or an agreement.

• Appoint

• Ratify

• Nullify

• Confirm