Government Unit 1 Review

What kind of democracy is the United States an example of?

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Monarchy

• Confederal System

Before the Antifederalists would ratify the new Constitution, they asked for amendments to be added to the new plan of government. The purpose of these amendments was to –

• Protect the power of the central government

• Protect the rights of all citizens

• Protect the rights of Great Britain in North America

• Ensure that the state government had equal control over the new government

Why did Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison write the Federalist Papers?

• They wrote the articles in defense of the new Constitution.

• As Antifederalists, they wanted people to understand the weakness of the new Constitution.

• They wrote the articles to help people appreciate the Antifederalist arguments.

• They wanted people to know that the Federalists were more intellectual than the Antifederalists

According to the Three-Fifths Compromise, three-fifths of a state’s slave population would be

• Subtracted from a states population to determine representation in Congress.

• Added to the slave population to determine representation in Congress.

• Counted when determining representation in Congress.

• Ignored when determining representation in Congress.

Why was the Great Compromise acceptable to the smaller states?

• The powers of the executive would be sharply limited.

• Representation in the House of Representatives would be based on population

• States would be represented equally in the Senate.

• Congress would be unicameral.

Why did large states favor the Virginia Plan?

• It was proposed by James Madison

• Representation in the legislature would be based on population.

• It solved the debate over counting enslaved people for representation

• Representation in the legislature would be equal for all states

Delegates gathered in Philadelphia in May of 1787 at the Constitution Convention to accomplish what goal?

• To discuss how to pay off Revolutionary War debt

• write an entirely new plan of government

• To frame a new Constitution

• Revise the Articles of Confederation

What event showed how weak the Confederation Congress was and hastened moves to revise the Articles of Confederation?

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• The Stamp Act

• The Northwest Ordinance

• Shays' Rebellion

Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress made the Land Ordinance of 1785

• The president had too much power

• Congress was not allowed to coin money

• Congress lacked the power to tax

Under the Articles of Confederation, most governmental power was retained by which?

• States

• The National Government

• English Parliament

• Local communities