Creating the Constitution Quiz

The purpose of the Three-Fifths Compromise, which was adopted at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, was to

• Balance power between lard and small population states

• Provide a means to decide disputed Presidential elections

• Allow Congress to override Presidential vetos

• Reduce the fear of loss of representation by Southern States with large slave populations

What was the name of the plan that called for states to be represented on the basis of their population in both houses of government?

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• Sherman Plan

What term refers to a form of government in which power is divided between the national government and states?

• federalism

• democracy

• republic

• representative democracy

What was the name of the plan that called for states to be represented equally in government?

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Virginia Plan

• Sherman Plan

The Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution, in part because it did not provide

• a bill of rights.

• a strong national government

• equal state representation.

• a system for amending the Constitution

The ____ called for Congress to have a Senate and a House of Representatives.

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

What plan proposed that every five enslaved persons would count as three free persons?

• the Three-Fifths Compromise

• the New Jersey Plan

• the Cotton Compromise

• the Five-Thirds Plan

A committee headed by Roger Sherman of Connecticut proposed the

• Three-Fifths Compromise.

• Great Compromise.

• Virginia Plan.

• New Jersey Plan.

The ____ believed the Constitution should provide protection for certain basic liberties.

• Anti-Federalists

• Whigs

• Liberals

• Abolitionists

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which problem was solved by the Great Compromise?

• Outlining the structure of the federal court system

• Developing the method to elect president

• Designating control of interstate commerce

• Establishing the formula for representation in Congress