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Constitution and Compromise Answers

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Why did the Northern states oppose the Southern states’ plan for determining population?

A
The plan would increase the political power of enslaved people.
B
The plan would lead to the eventual freedom of enslaved people.
C
The plan would increase the political power of the Southern states.
D
The plan would reduce the representation of Southern states.
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Why did Daniel Shays and other farmers start Shays’s Rebellion?

A
They were upset that banks were taking the land they farmed.
B
They were trying to get the government to give them more land.
C
They were protesting in support of the Articles of Confederation.
D
They were upset about needing to fight in the Revolutionary War.
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The debate surrounding slavery at the Constitutional Convention continued to grow after the Three-Fifths Compromise.

A
the Civil War
B
the American Revolution
C
George Washington’s election
D
the creation of the Bill of Rights
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Review the image of George Washington presiding over the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

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A
The delegates represented a broad, diverse segment of the population.
B
The delegates represented upper-class White men with political power.
C
The delegates represented the farmers who participated in Shays’s Rebellion.
D
The delegates represented women, African Americans, and American Indians.
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How did the Great Compromise settle the debate over the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

A
Each state would have the same number of senators and representatives, regardless of population.
B
Each state would have the same number of senators, but representatives would be based on population.
C
Each state would have the same number of representatives, but senators would be based on population.
D
The number of senators and representatives would be based on the state’s population.
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Which debate came close to ending the Constitutional Convention before any progress was made?

A
the debate surrounding taxes
B
the debate surrounding slavery
C
the debate over presidential power
D
the debate over declaring war
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Read the quotation from Mercy Otis Warren, an American writer who opposed ratifying the Constitution.The origin of all power is in the people, and . . . they have an [incontestable] right to check the creatures of their own creation.–Observations on the New Constitution, Mercy Otis Warren, 1788

A
A country’s leaders should have total authority.
B
It is best to give power to only a small group of people.
C
People have the right to question their government.
D
People should not have to follow laws they oppose.
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Why did Anti-Federalists insist that a bill of rights be included in the Constitution?

A
They believed that local and state governments needed to be less powerful.
B
They worried that the framers did not believe in basic human rights.
C
They wanted to place more limits on the power of a strong central government.
D
They wanted to ensure that all adults in the United States could fully participate in government.
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How did the Federalists convince New York and Virginia to support the new constitution?

A
They promised to give more power to state governments.
B
They changed the number of senators that each state could have.
C
They said they would weaken the power of the central government.
D
They agreed to add a bill of rights when Congress met for the first time.
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Read the excerpt from a letter that Henry Knox, a general in the American Revolution, wrote to George Washington about Shays’s Rebellion.This dreadful situation has alarmed every man of principle and property in New England—They start as from a dream, and ask what has been the Cause of our delusion? What is to afford us security against the violence of lawless men? Our government must be braced, changed, or altered to secure our lives and property. We imagined that the mildness of our government and the virtue of the people were so correspondent, that we were not as other nations requiring brutal force to support the laws—But we find that we are men, actual men, possessing all the turbulent passions belonging to that animal and that we must have a government proper and adequate to him.–Henry Knox, letter to George Washington, October 23, 1786

A
It shows that the government was strong enough to stop the rebellion.
B
It shows that the men fighting in the rebellion were obeying the law.
C
It shows that people wanted a stronger central government after the rebellion.
D
It shows that people were against forming a stronger central government after the rebellion.
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Whom did Anti-Federalists most fear would abuse power in the new government?

A
farmers
B
state officials
C
the aristocracy
D
the people
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Read the passage from Federalist, no. 1, by Alexander Hamilton.Among the most formidable [tremendous] of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution [reduction] of the power, emolument [salary], and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments.–Federalist, no. 1, Alexander Hamilton

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concern over potential abuses of power by state officials
B
concern over the spread of business and commerce
C
concern over members of Congress having too much power
D
concern over the removal of a list of individual rights
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What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

A
Three out of every five representatives in the legislature would be from Northern states.
B
Three out of every five representatives in the legislature would be from Southern states.
C
Three out of every five counties in a state could include enslaved people in their population counts.
D
Three out of every five enslaved people would be counted in a state’s population for representation.
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Why did delegates of smaller states support the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention?

A
The New Jersey Plan included a bicameral legislature.
B
The New Jersey Plan left power in the hands of the states.
C
The New Jersey Plan divided the central government into three branches.
D
The New Jersey Plan gave all states the same number of representatives.
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During the first Congress, who proposed the 10 constitutional amendments that became the Bill of Rights?

A
George Mason
B
James Madison
C
William Paterson
D
Alexander Hamilton
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Which rule of the Constitutional Convention allowed delegates to speak openly?

A
the rule that limited how much time could be spent on a topic
B
the rule that required delegates to remain focused at all times
C
the rule that limited the number of perspectives at the convention
D
the rule that required the delegates to always maintain secrecy

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