Chapter 7 Test, Traditional - A More Perfect Union

1. After the American Revolution, most states allowed only white men who were at least 21 years old to vote.

• True

• False

2. 2. Slavery was a major source of labor in the North.

• True

• False

3. The delegates at the Constitutional Convention included Native Americans, African Americans, and women.

• True

• False

4. The first three articles of the Constitution describe the structure of the federal government.

• True

• False

5. Anti-Federalists supported the Constitution.

• True

• False

Match each term with the correct statement below.

• bicameral

• to fall in value

• John Locke

• proposed the Great Compromise

• depreciate

• having two separate lawmaking chambers

• Roger Sherman

• wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the ruler

• manumission

• the freeing of individual enslaved persons

Which law helped stop the spread of slavery to the West?

• Confederation Law

• Morris Ordinance

• Northwest Ordinance

• Ordinance of 1785

The original Articles of Confederation had to be approved by how many states?

• 7

• 9

• 11

• 13

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

Under the federal system of government, what or who is the final authority?

• Constitution

• states

• president

• court system