Constitutional Convention

Why did delegates at the Secon Contineental Congress write the Articles of Confederation?

• To avoid entangling alliances with governments in Europe

• To provide a list of fundamental rights for all U.S. citizens.

• To establish a government framework separate from Great Britain.

• To explain the grievances of colonists against the British Parlianment.

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a major diagreement in drafting a new constitution arose between

• large and small states over the issue of representatin in Congress.

• the North and South over emancipating slaves in the United States.

• younger and older delegates oer the minium age for voting in Presidential election.

• those who wanted to dodify and those who wanted to abandon the Articles of Confederation.

Which of the following should replacethe question mark in this diagram?

• Direct democracy

• Great Compromise

• Checks and balances

• Missouri Compromise

Which of he following correctly decribes the Three-fifths Compromise?

• a portion of hte slave population was counted for legislative representation.

• A federal law enforcing th return of fugitive slaves was passsed.

• The census bureau was established to help apportion representation.

• The lection of senators was delegated to state legislatures.

Why were southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention willing to accept the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• It increased the politiocal influence of the South

• It allowed indentured servants in the South to become citizens.

• It decreased the federal tax on property in the South.

• It allowed the South to expand its industrial output.

Why was the creatin of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut am importat milestone in growth of representative government in the colonies.

• It was a written constitution and is ocnsidered the first in the colonies.

• It was a social contract requiring setters to sign a loyalty oath to Britain.

• It established the first legislature in the colonies, the House of Burgesses.

• Itset the precedent for the idea of judicial review for laws from Congress.

The main result of slavery expanding into the Southern coloniew was?

• mercantilism expanded in the South

• the development of the plantation system

• southern colonies shifted towards communism

• the decline of free enterprise

Thomas Hooker, William Bradford, and Anne Hutchison all established colonies for religious freedom in which colonial region identified below?

• Mid-Atlantic

• New England

• Appalacian Mountaions

• Southern

The British knew that the colonies were benefiting from goods from the Dutch, French, and Spanish, however. Eventually, in 1763, they began to enforce many of the trade restrictions and even passed new ones. —Independence Hall Association, On The Declaration

Based on the above information the colonist had been violating what policy?

• Stamp Act

• Mercantilism

• Free Enterprise

• Intolerable Acts

Which geographic characteristic is associalted with the English colonies?

• Most of their population was concentrated near the coast.

• Most were located in warm climate.

• Most estabished a form of representative government.

• Most had rich soil and good farmland.