A More Perfect Union

Having two separate lawmaking chambers is what?

• bicameral

• depreciate

• manumission

• Confederation Law

After the American Revolution, most states allowed only ______ who were at least 21 years old to vote.

Manumission is what?

• proposed the Great Compromise

• to fall in value

• The freeing of individual enslaved persons

• having two separate lawmaking chambers

Who wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler?

• James More

• Roger Sherman

• John Adams

• John Locke

Which law helped stop the spread of slavery to the West?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Morris Ordinance

• Confederation Law

• Ordinance of 1785

The Articles of Confederation had to be approved by how many states?

• 8

• 9

• 11

• 13

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

Under the federal system of government, what or who is the final authority?

• Constitution

• court system

• president

• states

The movement that influenced the Constitution’s architects was the?

• Age of Science.

• Enlightenment

• Ideas Period

• Reason Era.

Each enslaved person was to be counted as three-fifths of a free person for both taxation and representation was called what

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• The slave Compromise

• The states never did this