View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Edmund Randolph present to the delegates?
(a) The Virginia Plan.
(b) The New Jersey Plan.
(c) Articles of Confederation.
(d) The Great Compromise.

2. What did a legitimate government require, in James Madison's opinion?
(a) Aristocrats.
(b) A strong military.
(c) Direct democracy.
(d) Freedom from debt.

3. What did delegates suggest would happen if state legislatures chose Representatives for the House?
(a) The states would acquire too much power.
(b) The people would revolt.
(c) State and federal powers would balance.
(d) The government would not be legitimate.

4. What compromise did the Northeast states reach with Georgia and South Carolina over slavery?
(a) That northern states will legalize slavery if southern states will prohibit importation of slaves.
(b) New England would not restrict slavery if the southern states will not require 2/3 majority to pass commercial restrictions.
(c) Northern states will regulate slavery if southern states will have lower tariffs on exported raw materials.
(d) That northern states will not regulate slavery for fifty years, if southern states will abolish it themselves in that time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of representation did James Madison advocate?

2. What threat did Mr. Pinckney make if Congress has power to restrict the slave trade?

3. Who wrote the introduction to this edition of "The Anti-Federalist Papers"?

4. What imbalance gave James Madison cause for worry about ratification in the states?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 313 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample