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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 position did "Publius" advocate?
(a) Attacking the new Constitution.
(b) Defending the new Constitution.
(c) Arguing against ratification of the Constitution.
(d) Proposing an alternative to the Constitution.

2. What was the objection to democracy at the constitutional convention?
(a) The problems with devising a scheme of representation.
(b) The threat of concentrated executive power.
(c) The threat of mob rule.
(d) The danger of foreign influence.

3. What did Mr. Mason support at the convention?
(a) Election of Senators by Senators.
(b) Election by the people.
(c) Appointment by the President.
(d) Election by state legislatures.

4. Which form of government includes a king whose powers are limited by a statement of the laws?
(a) Representative democracy.
(b) Constitutional monarchy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Empire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Great Compromise?

2. What power was missing from the Articles?

3. What did Madison argue for in his letter to George Washington?

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

5. What did all the delegates at the federal convention agree on?

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