Creating the Constitution

Asked to be president of the Convention, first to sign

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

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

The president would be elected through an indirect vote called the

• Commerce compromise
• Great Compromise
• Three-fifths Compromise
• Electoral College

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

• tax
• ask
• demand
• force

Shay's Rebellion started as a protest against

• unfair taxes and farmer debt
• the death penalty
• no judicial system
• debtors' prisons

Who is the "Father of the Constitution?"

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

Small states favored the plan by William Patterson called the

• New Jersey Plan
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Virginia Plan
• Georgia Plan

The North wanted slaves to count for what purpose?

• Population
• Taxation
• No purpose at all
• both  population and taxation

Americans were afraid that a ______ would lead to tyranny.

• strong state government
• weak government
• strong central government
• legslature