Constitutional Convention Quiz

What was the plan of government known as the Articles of Confederation?

• A loose union in which the 13 states cooperated for common purposes

• A strong central government with no state sovereignty

• A system where each state had its own independent government

• A monarchy with a king as the head of the government

What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?

• A treaty to acquire lands from Native American tribes

• A law that divided western lands into townships and sections for sale to settlers

• A law to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory

• A plan to establish a monarchy in the Northwest Territory

What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

• A treaty to acquire lands from Native American tribes

• A plan to expand the Northwest Territory into Canada

• A law to establish a monarchy in the Northwest Territory

• A law that divided the Northwest Territory into smaller territories, each governed by a territorial governor

What was the result of Shays' Rebellion?

• It shocked Congress into calling for a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation

• It resulted in the secession of several states from the United States

• It led to the establishment of a strong central government

• It had no significant impact on the government

What was the Great Compromise?

• A compromise to expand the territory of the United States

• A compromise to abolish slavery in the United States

• A compromise to establish a monarchy in the United States

• A compromise to create a two-house Congress with representation based on both population and equal votes for each state

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• A compromise to abolish slavery in the United States

• A compromise to grant three-fifths of the representation in Congress to the small states

• A compromise to count each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person when determining a state's population for representation in the House of Representatives

• A compromise to grant three-fifths of the representation in Congress to the large states

What was the Electoral College?

• A college for training future political leaders

• A college for training government officials

• A college for educating voters about the political system

• A special body made up of electors who cast votes to elect the president and vice president every four years

Who proposed the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• James Madison

What was the rule of secrecy at the Constitutional Convention?

• Agreement to publish all discussions in newspapers

• Agreement to keep secret whatever was said in the meeting room until their work was done

• Agreement to allow the public to attend the convention

• Agreement to allow foreign powers to observe the convention

Who was elected as the president of the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• George Washington