Bill of Rights & First Amendment Notes Review

Constitutional Convention Review: The Great Compromise called for a BICAMERAL legislative branch, consisting of which two houses?

• Congress and Parliament
• House of Lords and House of Commons
• Senate and House of Representatives
• Legislative and Executive

Constitutional Convention Review: The numbers of representative in which house in Congress is based off population?

• Senate
• House of Lords
• House of Representatives
• Both

Constitutional Convention Review: How many representatives does each state have in the Senate?

• 2 per state

• 1 per state

• Differs by state depending on population

• none

Constitutional Convention Review: Due to the Three-Fifths Compromise, Congress could not interfere with the slave trade for how many years?

• 15 years
• 30 years
• 25 years
• 20 years

Constitutional Convention Review: How is the number of electors per state, in the Electoral College determined?

• By the number of voters in each state

• By the number of counties in the state
• By adding the total number of Senators and Representatives each state has in Congress.
• By the population size of the state

Constitutional Convention Review: The delegates at the Constitutional Convention who signed the Constitution and favored a strong national government were known as____________.

• Anti-Federalists
• Federalists
• Monarchists
• Separatists

Constitutional Convention Review: The delegates at the Constitutional Convention who REFUSED to sign the Constitution because they thought it was too powerful were known as ___________.

• Federalists
• Constitutionalists
• Anti-Federalists
• Unionists

Constitutional Convention Review: Most of the Anti-federalist did not sign the Constitution because it did not include a _____________.

• spot for them to sign

• Preamble

• Bill of Rights

• Expiration Date

What is the name for the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Preamble

• The new changes

• The Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights guarantees citizens which of the following?

• Civil Rights

• Taxes

• Happiness

• Liberties