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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?

2. How much of the Virginia Plan was accepted?

3. What thoughts did Mr. Madison express on the topic of elections during debate at the convention?

4. What did Alexander Hamilton want to protect the executive from?

5. What compromise did this body propose, between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was an argument for electing Senators in state legislatures?

2. What was Alexander Hamilton's argument about the need for a central government?

3. What were the delegates' positions on the question of Senatorial term limits?

4. What were some positions delegates took on the New Jersey Plan?

5. Describe the delegates' reaction to the New Jersey Plan.

6. What was Alexander Hamilton's position concerning the executive?

7. Why did James Madison argue against the New Jersey Plan?

8. What problems were Americans having with the Articles of Confederation?

9. What did delegates fear in the federal government's ability to veto state laws?

10. What role did Alexander Hamilton see for a strong federal government?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Constitutional Convention protect states' rights? Discuss three issues as evidence of the Constitutional Convention's protection of the states.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. What are the main differences? What similarities survived the Constitutional Convention, and why did they survive?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the paradox that a government needs to be strong in order to protect the people from the government itself. How was this notion handled by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention? What allowances were made so that the government was neither too strong nor too weak? What allowances were made to protect individual freedom?

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