creating the constitution

Asked to be president of the Convention, first to sign

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• Alexander Hamilton
• John Adams

Which house in Congress gives each state have equal representation? 

• Senate 
• House of Representatives 
• General Assembly 
• House of Commons 

What document replaced the Articles of Confederation and established a new national government? 

• The Declaration of Independence 
• The Constitution 
• The Magna Carta 
• The English Bill of Rights 

The issue of counting enslaved people for representation was solved with the

• Great Compromise
• One-Third Compromise
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Compromise

One major problem with the Articles is that Congress could not ______ the citizens to raise money

• tax
• ask
• demand
• force

Who is the "Father of the Constitution?"

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

The plan of government adopted 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.

• The Great Compromise

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Federalist Papers

• The Articles of Confederation

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

• The Northwest Territory

• The Northwest Ordinance

• Republic

• Constitution

A region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

• Republic

• Ratify

• Northwest Ordinance

• Northwest Territory

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

• The Great Compromise

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Federalist Papers