A More Perfect Union

What issue was settled by the Great Compromise?

• representation in Congress

• the names of political parties

• the system of checks and balances

• process of selecting the president

How did the southern states want each slave to be counted?

• as property to be taxed

• the same as any other person

• the same as livestock

• They did not want them to be counted.

The delegates decided that the president and vice president should be chosen by

• Congress

• the people

• the Electoral College

• political parties

Which statement about approving the Constitution is true?

• The Constitution went into effect without any of the states approving it.

• State legislatures had to approve the Constitution before it went into effect.

• Nine states had to approve the Constitution before it went into effect.

• All 13 states had to approve the Constitution before it went into effect.

What did the Fugitive Slave Clause say?

• Any slave that made it to a free state was free.

• “a person held to service or labour” who fled to another state would be returned to their owner

• Slavery would end in 1808.

• Slaves would count as “⅗’s of all other persons”

What was a long-term effect of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

• Territories eventually became states.

• The farmers in Massachusetts rebelled.

• George Washington was elected president.

• Slavery expanded in the United States.

What did the Virginia Plan propose?

• two houses of Congress with representation based on state population

• one house of Congress with equal representation from each state

• an upper house of Congress with equal representation from each state

• a lower house of Congress with equal representation from each state

Which of these was the greatest challenge for the delegates at the Constitutional Convention?

• how to respond to the interests of foreign countries

• how to balance the concerns of farmers and ranchers

• how to balance the interests of large and small states

• how to get agreement between the eastern and western states

One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that Congress could not

• declare war

• impose taxes

• make treaties

• borrow money

Which of these did both the Virginia and New Jersey Plans include?

• an end to slavery

• an elected president

• two houses of Congress

• three branches of government