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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the benefit of adopting the resolution that was ultimately adopted?
(a) It created a need for a lot of inter-state lawsuits.
(b) It weakened the Articles of Confederation and gave the states more power.
(c) It allowed the federal government to be effective.
(d) It resolved decades of inter-state tension.

2. What opinion bolstered Mr. Sherman's view about where election should take place?
(a) He believed that small states needed equal representation.
(b) He believed in a strong democracy.
(c) He believed that the populace could be misled.
(d) He believed that people could be trusted with self-governance.

3. 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.

4. How many branches of government did Mr. Madison propose be elected?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) At least one.
(d) He proposed that all government positions should be elected.

5. What did Madison stress in his letter to George Washington?
(a) The need for representation by population.
(b) The need for representation by state and region.
(c) The need for high taxes to pay for federal army and government.
(d) The need for restraints on popular sentiment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Southern economy rely on at the time of the constitutional convention?

2. What did the Virginia Plan propose to do to the Articles?

3. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?

4. What were the delegates debating in Chapter 3?

5. What was cut out when the Constitutional Convention doted down part of the Virginia Plan?

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