The Founders and the Process

What document created the first independent government in America?

• the Constitution

• the Articles of Confederation

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Bill of Rights

What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• There was a powerful federal government.

• Congress could not levy or collect taxes.

• The states elected their own representatives.

• They created a "league of friendships".

Who was the president of the Constitutional Convention?

• Alexander Hamilton

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

What were the Federalist papers?

• responses from King George II to Washington

• newspapers in Philadelphia and Boston

• letters from the Committee of Correspondence

• essays that supported the new government

What stated that three out of every five (3/5) of the enslaved people would be counted in the population?

• The Virginia Plan

• The Great Compromise

• The New Jersey Plan

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

Why did the northern and southern states debate how to count enslaved people in the United States?

• Both B and C

• Delegates in the North wanted to outlaw slavery.

• Delegates in the South wanted to keep slavery in place.

• Neither B or C

To whom did the Constitution give power to negotiate with Native American tribes?

• military

• the president

• states

• Congress

Who wrote the Federalist papers?

• Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson

• John Jay and Thomas Jefferson

• John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

• George Washington and George Mason

Who refused to sign the Constitution until the Bill of Rights was added?

• George Mason

• Elbridge Gerry

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

• Elbridge Gerry

• Alexander Hamilton

• George Mason

• George Washington