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Civic Literacy - Module 2 Lesson 1 - Key Terms

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A governing document outlining government and laws is a ___________________.

a)

Constitution

b)

Delegate

c)

Rebellion

d)

Plan

2.

_______________ was the meeting of Delegates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to decide how America should be governed.

a)

Shays Rebellion

b)

Constitutional Convention

c)

Great Compromise

d)

New Jersey Plan

3.

Series of armed attacks on government building in protest of high taxes _____.

a)

New Jersey Plan

b)

Virginia Plan

c)

Nat Turners Rebellion

d)

Shays Rebellion

4.

A representative from each state chosen to make choices in the best interest of the states ______.

a)

Delegates

b)

Federalists

c)

Gratifiers

d)

Compromises

5.

Constitutional plan that called for a bicameral legislative branch with representation based on population

a)

Virginia Plan

b)

New Jersey Plan

c)

North Carolina Plan

d)

South Carolina Plan

6.

Constitutional plan that called for a unicameral legislative branch with equal representation

a)

New Jersey Plan

b)

Virginia Plan

c)

North Carolina Plan

d)

South Carolina Plan

7.

Compromise that combined the Virginia and New Jersey Plans. Created a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and a Senate

a)

Three-Fifths Compromise

b)

Great Compromise

c)

Electoral College Compromise

d)

Federalist Compromise

8.

Compromise that allowed for three out of five enslaved people to count for representation in Congress

a)

Three-Fifths Compromise

b)

Great Compromise

c)

Electoral College Compromise

d)

Federalist Compromise

9.

Compromise that set up the indirect election of the President by having state legislatures cast the final vote

a)

Great Compromise

b)

Three-Fifths Compromise

c)

Electoral College Compromise

d)

Federalist Compromise

10.

Division of power between the national government and the state governments

a)

Federalism

b)

Republicanism

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Oligopoly

11.

Formal approval of a contract, in this case the U.S. Constitution

a)

Division

b)

Compromising

c)

Federalism

d)

Ratification