Origins of Government - Test Review

1. The Connecticut Compromise was also called this because it ended the dispute and led to the successful writing of the Constitution.

• The Great Resolve

• The Great Compromise

• The Amazing Deal

1. The Three-Fifths Compromise disappeared from the Constitution with the adoption of the this Amendment which abolished slavery in 1865

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

1. What colonists called the laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the troubles they caused in Boston and elsewhere.

• Unfair Acts

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

1. This state was the only state that did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

• Rhode Island

• Delaware

• Virginia

1. At age 81, he was the oldest delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

Those in favor of ratification of the Constitution

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Constitutionalists

These types of colonies were based on charters granted in 1662 and 1663 to the colonies themselves. They were largely self-governed and included Connecticut and Rhode Island.

• Charter Colonies

• Royal Colonies

• Proprietary Colonies

In the fall of 1786, he and several other local leaders led an uprising that forced the state Supreme Court to close.  The next year, he unsuccessfully tried to attack a federal arsenal.

• Benedict Arnold

• Thomas Gage

• Daniel Shays

Presented to the Constitutional Convention, it proposed that the Senate would be represented equally among the states no matter the size and the House of Representatives would be based on population.  This resolved the dispute among the small and larger states about fair representation.

• Connecticut Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

At the Constitutional Convention, each state would have this many votes regardless of the size of their state or the number of delegates from their state present.

• 1

• 5

• 13