The Nation Adopts a New Constitution Notes Quiz

What did George Washington describe as a time when the states were being held together by a rope of sand?

• The Critical Period

• The Constitutional Convention

• Shay's Rebellion

• The Great Compromise

What were some weaknesses of the government established by the Articles of Confederation?

• No national executive and inability to tax

• No national executive and inability to regulate trade

• No national judiciary and inability to tax

• No national judiciary and inability to regulate trade

What was the main cause of Shay's Rebellion?

• Growing debts and high state taxes

• Lack of representation in Congress

• Imprisonment in debtor's prison

• Shortage of currency and widespread unemployment

What did the uprising of farmers in Shay's Rebellion want?

• To stop state courts from seizing their property and issue paper money

• To establish a stronger national government

• To protect manufacturing and shipping

• To defend the borders and protect settlers on the frontier

What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

• To revise the Articles of Confederation

• To establish a new national government

• To address the issue of slavery

• To resolve the dispute over state representation

What was the first compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention?

• State representation in Congress

• Counting of slaves for representation

• Taxation of trade

• Regulation of the slave trade

What was the compromise regarding the counting of slaves?

• Southern states wanted slaves to be counted, while northern states opposed

• Northern states wanted slaves to be counted, while southern states opposed

• Slaves were not counted for representation in Congress

• Slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for representation in Congress

What was the commerce compromise at the Constitutional Convention?

• Prohibition of all taxes on exports

• Prohibition of all taxes on imports

• Regulation of the slave trade

• Taxation of trade by southern landowners

What was the agreement regarding the regulation of the slave trade?

• Congress should regulate the slave trade immediately

• Congress should regulate the slave trade after 20 years

• Congress should not regulate the slave trade at all

• Congress should regulate the slave trade only for northern states

What were the main issues of disagreement at the Constitutional Convention?

• State representation, counting of slaves, and taxation of trade

• State representation, regulation of the slave trade, and taxation of trade

• Counting of slaves, regulation of the slave trade, and taxation of trade

• State representation, counting of slaves, and regulation of the slave trade