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Historian Hustle - The New Nation

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The ______________________ is body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Lost State of Franklin

c)

Constitution

d)

Federalism

2.

__________________________ are people who opposed the Constitution

a)

James Madison

b)

Federalist

c)

Three-Fifths Compromise

d)

Anti-Federalist

3.

______________ is the National, State, and local government share power; also refers to the division of power between the state and national government.

a)

Land Ordinance of 1785

b)

Federalism

c)

Anti-Federalist

d)

Shay's Rebellion

4.

_____________________ are people who supported the Constitution

a)

Federalist

b)

Anti-Federalist

c)

Articles of Confederation

d)

Constitutional Convention

5.

____________________________________ was an agreement to count three-fifths of a state's slaves in allotting Representatives, Presidential electors, and direct taxes.

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Three-Fifths Compromise

c)

Shay's Rebellion

d)

Federalism

6.

_____________________________ met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Lost State of Franklin

c)

Great Compromise

d)

Constitutional Convention

7.

The _________________________________ was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.

a)

Constitutional Convention

b)

Articles of Confederation

c)

Great Compromise

d)

Federalism

8.

_____________________series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts that began in 1786 and led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787.

a)

Shay's Rebellion

b)

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

c)

Land Ordinance of 1785

d)

Great Compromise

9.

___________________________ was the Founding Father who helped to organize and shape the ideas in the Constitution. Also served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.

a)

George Washington

b)

King George

c)

Anti-Federalist

d)

James Madison

10.

______________________________________ was the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.

a)

Northwest Ordinance of 1785

b)

Articles of Confederation

c)

Constitution Convention

d)

Federalist

11.

The _________________________ was a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west.

a)

Shay's Rebellion

b)

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

c)

James Madison

d)

Land Ordinance of 1785

12.

Several counties in what is today Tennessee tried to form their own independent state known as the __________________________________, by 1788 because of conflict with the United States and Native Americans it fell apart.

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Constitution Convention

c)

Lost State of Franklin

d)

Articles of Confederation

13.

__________________________ provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the northwest territory.

a)

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

b)

Land Ordinance of 1785

c)

Great Compromise

d)

Anti-Federalist