Constitution Quiz

What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?

• Article 4

• The Bill of Rights

• Federalism

A change to the constitution is also called a(n)...

• Amendment

• Branch of Government

Which article of the Constitution created the presidency?

• Article I

• Article II

• Article III

• Article IV

Which branch of government can use the U.S. military to enforce laws?

• legislative

• executive

• judiciary

• monarchy

This branch of government interprets laws and if they deem it to be unconstitutional, they can remove the law.

• legislative

• executive

• judiciary

• monarchy

Farmers in western Massachusetts protested mortgage foreclosures and showed how weak the national government was under the Articles of Confederation.

• Shay's rebellion

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Bleeding Kansas

What compromise was made based on slavery in the Constitution?

• The Great Compromise

• The 3/5 Compromise

• The Bill of Rights

• The Slave Compromise

James Madison

• President of the Constitutional Convention

• "Father of the Constitution"

• founder of the Federalist Party

• leader of the resistance to the new Constitution

electoral college

• a university established by the constitutional convention to educate political candidates

• group of electors, chosen by state governors, that votes for president

• name given to delegates to the Constitutional Convention

• group of electors, chosen by each state based on population, that votes for president

ratify

• to formally approve a plan or an agreement

• to edit a legal document based on the Constitution

• to protest the adoption of a new

  Constitution

• to come to agreement with a person in opposition