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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 Great Compromise?
(a) A bicameral legislature.
(b) Bring Texas into the union as a slave state, and Missouri as free.
(c) The creation of the Electoral College.
(d) Appoint judges for life, but allow them to be impeached.

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

3. What happened to the motion not to give government officers salaries?
(a) It was tabled to be voted on later.
(b) It was rejected as impractical.
(c) It was rejected as too aristocratic.
(d) It was killed in committee.

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

5. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?
(a) Who should be eligible to vote in elections.
(b) Whether government officers should receive pay.
(c) Whether the federal government should oversee state laws.
(d) Whether the executive should be singular or plural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George Mason say he feared, in his argument on June 4?

2. What did delegates suggest would happen if state legislatures chose Representatives for the House?

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

4. What were Americans concluding by the 1780s?

5. Which form of government includes direct voting by the people?

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