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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 did Madison and Jefferson feel about Virginia?
(a) That the taxation rates were too low.
(b) That the executive was too weak.
(c) That democracy restricted the leaders.
(d) That international trade would solve its budget problems.

2. How did the South want the Constitution to regulate trade?
(a) The South wanted the Constitution to keep tariffs low indefinitely.
(b) The South wanted the Constitution to let Congress set tariffs with a simple majority vote.
(c) The South wanted the Constitution to keep Congress from restricting trade.
(d) The South wanted the Constitution not to regulate trade at all.

3. What were Americans and Britons discussing a great deal during the 1770s?
(a) Warfare against the Native Americans.
(b) The Massachusetts charter.
(c) Warfare against the French.
(d) Political thought and theory.

4. What thoughts did Mr. Wilson express at the convention?
(a) Popular election will lead to a tyranny of the masses.
(b) Popular election will allow the people to mislead each other.
(c) Popular election will debase public discourse.
(d) Popular election will give people confidence in the government.

5. Why did delegates argue for a small senate?
(a) They thought it would give the large states fair representation.
(b) They thought it would make Senators more intimate and therefore more willing to compromise.
(c) They thought it would make for debate that is more dignified.
(d) They thought it would limit the influence of the executive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?

2. What was the objection to constitutional monarchy at the constitutional convention?

3. What did Madison say the country needed, in his letter to George Washington?

4. What would happen if government officers did not receive salaries, in the opinion of the man who proposed this?

5. What theory was flourishing in the 1770s in America?

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