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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What limitation did delegates try to place on suffrage?
(a) Race restrictions.
(b) Literacy restrictions.
(c) Landowner restrictions.
(d) National origin restrictions.

2. What did Rhode Island propose in its ratification process?
(a) To expand the government's ability to tax.
(b) To give the states the right to appoint politicians.
(c) To give the people the right to bear arms.
(d) To give the people freedom of speech.

3. What did Benjamin Franklin say about supporters of the residency requirement for citizenship?
(a) He said that delegates were understating the ease with which people assimilate into American culture.
(b) He said that delegates were exaggerating the threat of European immigration.
(c) He said that delegates were opening the floodgates to a tide of poor workers by opening restrictions on immigration.
(d) He said that delegates were cutting off sources of new talent by limiting immigration.

4. What was the original proposal for the residency requirement for citizenship?
(a) American birth.
(b) 2 years residence.
(c) 14 years residence.
(d) 7 years residence.

5. What did "Brutus" say about the danger of trying to govern a large area?
(a) It would lead to wars.
(b) It would be expensive and inefficient.
(c) It would create tyranny.
(d) It would require too many bureaucrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did James Wilson address the absence of a Bill of Rights?

2. What did James Madison worry about concerning ratification in the states?

3. What did Mr. Pinckney think about slavery?

4. What was DeWitt arguing against in his essays?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Patrick Henry's first speech to the Virginia legislature.

2. What positions did the delegates take on the election of the executive?

3. What were the proposals for the requirements for citizenship?

4. What was John DeWitt's argument regarding the will of the people?

5. What did the dissenters say after losing the ratification vote in the Pennsylvania convention?

6. What did Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island recommend after their ratification conventions?

7. Describe Patrick Henry's second speech to the Virginia legislature.

8. How did the signing of the Constitution go?

9. How did Publius respond to Anti-Federalist concerns about tyranny in the Constitution?

10. What was Mr. Gerry's objection to the Constitution?

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