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Government Constitution Skill

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which state had the most delegates at its convention?

a)

South Carolina

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Connecticut

d)

Delaware

2.

Which state had the fewest delegates at its convention?

a)

North Carolina

b)

Delaware

c)

Georgia

d)

Rhode Island

3.

Which state was the last to ratify the Constitution?

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Virginia

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Connecticut

4.

Which state voted to accept the Constitution by only three votes?

a)

A. South Carolina

b)

New Hampshire

c)

Maryland

d)

New York

5.

Which state ratified the Constitution in April of 1788?

a)

Maryland

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Virginia

d)

South Carolina

6.

Which state ratified the Constitution by only two votes?

a)

Rhode Island

b)

New Hampshire

c)

New York

d)

Virginia

7.

In which state was the voting NOT 100 percent in favor of ratification?

a)

A. New Jersey

b)

B. Pennsylvania

c)

Delaware

d)

Georgia

8.

What time period does the chart represent?

a)

Dec. 1787 to May 1790

b)

Dec. 1787 to June 1790

c)

Jan. 1787 to June 1790

d)

Jan. 1786 to May 1790

9.

How many years passed between Delaware's ratification of the Constitution and Rhode Island's?

a)

2 years, 5 months

b)

3 years, 2 months

c)

3 years, 5 months

d)

2 years, 11 months

10.

Which state ratified the Constitution approximately two years after Delaware?

a)

Georgia

b)

North Carolina

c)

Delaware

d)

Virginia

11.

What conclusion do you draw when you examine the time period between the states' ratification of the Constitution?

a)

Delegations got larger as time passed.

b)

Margins of approval were wider in the votes of the earlier states than in the later ones.

c)

C. The chart shows only months between the dates on which the earlier states ratified the Constitution and longer periods of time between ratifications in the later states.

d)

Margins of approval increased as time went on

12.

Which state had both the largest number of delegates and closest vote for ratification by

percentage?

a)

Pennsylvania

b)

North Carolina

c)

South Carolina

d)

Massachusetts

13.

The Constitution went into effect after nine states had ratified it. Which state cast the deciding vote?

a)

New York

b)

Virginia

c)

New Hampshire

d)

Rhode Island

14.

Of the states in which the vote for ratification was NOT 100 percent, which state had the

highest percentage of its delegates voting for ratification?

a)

Rhode Island

b)

New York

c)

Connecticut

d)

North Carolina

15.

Which state ratified the Constitution by the fewest votes?

a)

New York

b)

Virginia

c)

Massachusetts

d)

Pennsylvania

16.

Which state had both Antifederalist and Federalist supporters?

a)

Georgia

b)

Delaware

c)

New Hampshire

d)

New Jersey

17.

Which state had no areas in which Antifederalists were in the majority?

a)

New York

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

North Carolina

d)

Georgia

18.

How did the future states of Kentucky and Tennessee compare to the rest of the country?

a)

The were more Federalist.

b)

They were more Antifederalist.

c)

They were split, as the country was.

d)

They had no opinion because they were not yet states.

19.

Where did Federalists tend to live?

a)

along the Great Lakes

b)

along the Atlantic coast

c)

in New York

d)

in the Northwest Territory

20.

Which state had no evenly divided areas?

a)

South Carolina

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

New Jersey

d)

Virginia