SSUSH5 Mini Test

Which of the following best describes the Articles of Confederation?

•  It established a strong central government with three distinct branches with separate powers

• It declared the George Washington would be chosen as the first President of the Continental Congress

• It was the treaty signed to end the American Revolution that set boundaries of a new American na

• It established a legislative branch but gave most of the power to the state governments

Which of the following was NOT a power granted to Congress under the Articles of Confederation?

•  Declare war

• Impose federal taxes

• Make peace through treaties

What is this image representing?

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Committee of Correspondence

• Great Compromise

• Land Ordinance of 1785

What did the Constitutional Convention decide with respect to counting slaves as part of a state’s population?

• No slaves would be counted as population

• Three-fifths of the slaves would be counted

• One half of the slaves would be counted

• All slaves would be counted as population

Which of the following BEST describes the significance of Shays’ Rebellion?

• It was intended to obtain arms that could be used to support slave rebellions

•  It defied the colonial governor by raising a vigilante army against the natives

• It represented an adverse reaction to Hamilton’s excise tax plan

•  It demonstrated the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation

What group of people is being described in this image?

• Anti-Federalist

• Loyalist

• The Federalist

• Sons of Liberty

The original intent of the Bill of Rights was to protect individual liberties against the— 

• State governments

• Federal government

• County governments

• Municipal governments

What was the purpose of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton writing the Federalist Papers?

• To argue the importance of adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution 

• To explain the plan to pay back debts from the American Revolution

• To argue the benefits of the keeping the Articles of Confederation

• To convince anti-Federalist of why they should ratify the Constitution 

This was created through the Articles of Confederation which consisted of a process to become a state and outlawed slavery in new territories.

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Land Ordinance

• Quartering Act

• Proclamation of 1763

Which of the following best describes the 3/5 Compromise

• An agreement to have a bi-cameral legislature with one house based on population and the other on equal representation

•  A document added on to the Constitution that gave rights to individual citizens and states

• A document written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to convince the anti-federalists to ratify the Constitution

• The agreement for how slaves would be counted in the state population so that the Southern states would ratify the Constitution