Final Exam

Most anti-Federalists changed from opponents to supporters of the Constitution after they were promised

• a bicameral legislature

• good relations with Native Americans

• term limits on the office of president

• a bill of rights

Much of the Declaration of Independence consists of

• desires to separate from England

• complaints of wrongs that were done to colonists

• lists of rights for all people

• threats of revenge

When Southern states' representatives were contributing to drafting the Constitution, they tended to argue that

• slaves should be counted in the census

• territories should be open to slave-holding

• slave trade should be abolished

• church and state should be separated

Demands for the calling of a Constitutional Convention in 1787 reflected the frowing belief that the

• state governments had too little power

• national government needed to be strengthened

• small and large states should be political equals

• rights of businesses were not being protected

One major compromise at the Constitutional Convention settled the difference between large states and small states over the issue of

• civil liberties

• taxation

• represenetation in Congress

• territorial expansion

Use the information below to answer the question.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are established among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, 1776

Thomas Jefferson was restating the ideas expressed in the Two Treatises on Government by British philosopher

• John Locke

• David Hume

• Sir Issac Newton

• Thomas Hobbes

Who is in charge of the executive branch?

• The Speaker of the House

• The Prime Minister

• The President

• The Chief Justice

What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution? Choose one:

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Inalienable rights

• The Articles of Confederation

Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the states, What is one power of the states? Choose one:

• Provide public education

• Make Treaties

• Create an army

• Coin of print money

We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years? Choose one:

• 4

• 2

• 10

• 6