Chapter 5 Forming a Government Test Review

Under British rule, only free, white men who owned land could vote. How did the new state constitutions expand suffrage? 

• Allowing all free Africans to vote

• Allowing all women and Africans to vote

• Allowing any white man who paid taxes to vote

• Allowing only church officials to vote

The Confederation Congress invited delegates to meet and discuss ways to improve the Articles of Confederation. This meeting was called

• The Great Compromise

• Committees of Correspondence

• First Continental Congress

• Constitutional Convention

Delegates who supported ratification of the constitution were known as _______________, and those who opposed were known as _______________.

• federalists/antifederalists

• loyalists/patriots

• redcoats/loyalists

• delegates/non-delegates

All of the following explain the Anti-federalist feeling in regard to the new U.S. Constitution except?

• They thought a new Constitution should not have been drafted

• They felt that it gave too much power to the Central government

• They felt that the Constitution was still weak

• They thought it should have contained a portion on individual rights.

Southern state delegates wanted their enslaved Africans to count as part of their states population for which of the following reasons?

• They could have less representation and less power in Congress

• They wanted more taxes to be assessed in their state

• They wanted less representation and more power in Congress

• They wanted more representation and more power in Congress

What did Daniel Shays and his men protest in 1786?

• the death penalty

• restricted use of slaves

• federal control of the judicial system

• the force selling of farmers land (to pay for debts)

Which two documents did the English citizens use to limit the power of the king?

• Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta and Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights

• English Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence

The Second Continental Congress set up a committee to discuss and draft a national constitution.  This document would be the new government of the U.S. and was called:

• Articles of Confederation

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance

• Magna Carta

To ratify a document means that the document has been given which of the following?

• Ultimate veto

• A second look by Congress

• Official approval

• Unconstitutional ruling

Why did Congress decide to pass the Land Ordinance of 1785, which divided western lands into townships?  

• Congress wanted to create a region where slavery was banned

• Congress wanted to sell lots to the public to pay the nation’s war debts

• Colonial governments had already expanded their borders into western lands.