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Ch. 3 Review - A More Perfect Union

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did the Articles of Confederation set up a Congress?

a)

to deal with limited national concerns

b)

to provide social services

c)

to levy taxes

d)

to fight the American Revolution

2.

The __________ of the 1700s promoted knowledge, reason, and science as a way to improve society.

a)

Enlightement

b)

Great Awakening

c)

Reformation

d)

Age of Pericles

3.

__________ legislatures are divided into two houses.

a)

Confederatie

b)

Sovereign

c)

Bicameral

d)

Popular sovereignty

4.

What caused Shays's Rebellion?

a)

the selling of land in the Northwest Territory

b)

cruel treatment of enslaved people

c)

farmers were angry about their rising debt

d)

abolitionists demanded an end to slavery

5.

What convinced George Washington to attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia?

a)

Shays's Rebellion

b)

a personal request from Hamilton

c)

a slave rebellion in Richmond

d)

British advancement in the Great Lakes

6.

Under the earliest state constitutions, each state government was divided into what branches?

a)

House of Representatives and Senate

b)

executive, judicial, and legislative

c)

governor and court syste

d)

Articles of Confederation

7.

The __________ Plan provided for the power to levy taxes, regulate trade, and elect a weak executive branch.

a)

New Jersey

b)

Virginia

c)

Carolina

d)

Delaware

8.

The sharing of power between federal and state governments is called __________.

a)

antifederalism

b)

communism

c)

federalism

d)

republicanism

9.

Antifederalists opposed ratifying the Constitution because they did not want __________.

a)

to lose individual freedom

b)

to be taxed

c)

slavery

d)

the frontier settled

10.

Americans wanted Spain to grant them the right to __________.

a)

transport goods on the Mississippi River

b)

use strategic forts in the Great Lakes

c)

borrow money from foreign powers

d)

tax the slave trade

11.

Rights embodied in early state constitutions could be __________.

a)

taken away by Congress

b)

traced back to Thomas Hobbes

c)

seen in the Three-Fifths Compromise

d)

traced back to the English Bill of Rights

12.

The first U.S. national government raised money by __________ and __________.

a)

raising taxes

b)

selling lands on the frontier

c)

asking the states for money

d)

forcing England to give them money

13.

The idea that all people have natural rights could be traced back to __________.

a)

James Madison

b)

John Locke

c)

Montesquieu

d)

George Washington

14.

After the American Revolution, most states __________.

a)

granted the right to vote to all adults

b)

looked to the new federal government for strong national leadership

c)

set up public school systems for all children

d)

took steps to eliminate the importance of slaves

15.

The depression after the Revolutionary War was caused by __________ , __________, and __________.

a)

a reduction in trade

b)

the inability of Congress to raise taxes

c)

the creation of the army

d)

the depreciation of currency

16.

The __________ Plan called for proportional representation.

a)

New York

b)

Delaware

c)

Virginia

d)

New Jersey

17.

__________ authored the Virginia Plan.

a)

George Washington

b)

James Madison

c)

Roger Sherman

d)

Benjamin Franklin

18.

__________ initially refused to call a convention to consider ratifying the Constitution.

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

Rhode Island

d)

South Carolina

19.

The Constitution drew on what Enlightenment ideals?

a)

the Magna Carta

b)

natural rights and balance of power

c)

the English Bill of Rights

d)

the Roman republic

20.

The Constitution is divided into __________ articles.

a)

3

b)

7

c)

10

d)

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