Ch. 4, Lesson 1 - The Early Republic

The ________________ ________________ ________________ includes the first ten amendments to the Constitution and describe guaranteed rights of states and citizens.

• Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

States with large populations wanted more ________________ in Congress to have more influence in decisions.

• representation
• money

• knowledge

The Great Compromise created two chambers in ________________: the ________________ ________________ ________________ based on a state’s population; and the ________________ based on equality for all states.

• Congress, House of Representatives, and Senate
• the White House, Senate, House of Representatives

• Congress, Senate, House of Representatives

The ________________ branch enforces laws, and the ________________ branch reviews the laws.

• Judicial, Executive

• Judicial, Legislative

• Executive, Judicial

• Executive, Legislative

The delegates met at the Constitutional Convention to ________________ the Articles of Confederation; but instead of changing the document, they started over and wrote the Constitution.

• amend
• completely throw out

• ratify

________________ wanted guaranteed citizen and state rights included in the Constitution, so they did not want it to be ________________.

• Antifederalists, ratified
• Federalists, ratified

________________ supported the Constitution as it was written because they did not want to include guaranteed rights of citizens and states.

• Federalists
• Antifederalists

What was the purpose of The Federalist Papers?

• to convince citizens to support the Constitution

• to convince people to not support the Constitution

• to get people to support the American revolution which hadn't happened yet

TRUE or FALSE - Slavery was made illegal through the Constitution.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is the NAME for the powers shared between the national and state governments?

• concurrent powers

• delegated powers

• reserved powers