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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: The Federal Convention of 1787, Chapter 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What power was missing from the Articles?
(a) The power to regulate foreign trade.
(b) Executive power.
(c) The power to amend the Articles.
(d) The power to conduct war.

2. What did Madison and Jefferson want to do about judges?
(a) Allow them independence in their rulings.
(b) Review their judgments in the Congress.
(c) Subject them to elections.
(d) Protect them from popular politics.

3. What was cut out when the Constitutional Convention doted down part of the Virginia Plan?
(a) Congress's ability to declare war.
(b) Congress's ability to vote down state laws.
(c) Congress's ability to impose state taxes.
(d) Congress's ability to regulate interstate trade.

4. What was the dominant fear about the executive?
(a) The power to impose taxes.
(b) The power to appoint judges.
(c) The power to go to war.
(d) The power to regulate trade.

5. What did Edmund Randolph present to the delegates?
(a) The New Jersey Plan.
(b) The Great Compromise.
(c) Articles of Confederation.
(d) The Virginia Plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?

2. What reason did Mr. Mason give for the view he presented at the convention?

3. How did the South want the Constitution to regulate trade?

4. What were Americans and Britons discussing a great deal during the 1770s?

5. What was the objection to democracy at the constitutional convention?

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