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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the objection to constitutional monarchy at the constitutional convention?
(a) The possibility of a runaway executive.
(b) The threat of tyranny of the masses.
(c) The threat of mob rule.
(d) The Americans' distaste following the war.

2. What did the Southern economy rely on at the time of the constitutional convention?
(a) State-to-state trade.
(b) Expansion.
(c) Exports.
(d) Imports.

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

4. Which form of government includes a representative government without hereditary privilege?
(a) Constitutional monarchy.
(b) Representative democracy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Republic.

5. Who proposed that government officers not receive salaries?
(a) Alexander Hamilton.
(b) George Washington.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What power was missing from the Articles?

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

3. What did Madison and Jefferson want to do about judges?

4. What were the delegates debating in Chapter 3?

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

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