American Government Test

Benjamin Franklin​ ​ (a)  

• Proposed the Albany Plan of Union
• Invented the light bulb
• Discovered gravity
• Founded the state of Alabama
• Wrote the Declaration of Independence

George Washington​ ​ (a)  

• Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
• First person to walk on the moon
• Inventor of the lightbulb
• Father of the Constitution

James Madison​ (a)  

• Father of the Constitution
• King of England
• Inventor of the lightbulb
• Proposed the Great Compromise

Roger Sherman​ (a)  

• Proposed the Great Compromise
• Signed the Declaration of Independence
• Invented the lightbulb

John Hancock​ (a)  

• President of the Second Continental Congress
• Inventor of the lightbulb
• First person to walk on the moon
• Father of the Constitution

The colonists were willing to be governed by a king who was more than 3000 miles away

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Articles of Confederation were our first constitution

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Articles of Confederation were a strong and binding document for the 13 states/nations in North America

• TRUE

• FALSE

The original purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation

• TRUE

• FALSE

The smaller populated states had a plan for equal representation in the legislature. This was called____

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• Connecticut Compromise

• Electoral college

• Great Agreement