Chapter 9 Quiz

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Whether or not presidential powers should be increased

B  How to balance the interests of large and small states

C  Whether or not slavery should be abolished

D  How the government should regulate trade

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Alexander Hamilton

B  James Madison

C  Patrick Henry

D  George Washington

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

B  George Clinton and Richard Henry Lee.

C  George Mason and Patrick Henry.

D  Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.

A  Congress, a court system, and an executive

B  Congress

C  Congress and an executive

D  Congress and a courtysystem

A  had the support of George Washington

B  was aimed at the Vermont government which had very strict policies regarding debtors

C  demonstrated the weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation

D  was a response to the Whiskey tax implemented to raise revenue to pay war debt

A  provided for gradual emancipation of slaves

B  was favored by smaller, less populated states because it proposed equal representation

C  replaced the Articles of Confederation

D  was a thinly disguised attempt to institute a monarchy in America

A  Businesses could not meet creditors’ terms.

B  Pennsylvania farmers could not pay their debt.

C  Massachusetts farmers resented increasing taxes.

D  Samuel Adams incited a riot in Boston.

A  required that all revenue bills have a 3/5 approval vote in the House of Representatives

B  declared that slaves were not human and did not have legal rights

C  expired in the year 1808 because of a key sectional compromise made at the Constitutional Convention

D  gave the white south more power in national affairs because they could count their slaves in the general population for the purpose of determining representation in the House of Representatives

A  is known as the “father” of the US Constitution

B  fought in the American Revolution

C  urged an expansion of the public library system

D  did not attend the Philadelphia Convention

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Five states had to approve war-making decisions.

B  All thirteen states had to approve routine decisions.

C  Nine states had to vote to amend the articles.

D  Each state had two delegates who served one-year terms

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  augmented the powers of the upper house.

B  reduced the powers of the governor.

C  abolished the lower house.

D  gave veto power to the governor.

A  They promised federal tax relief for poor famers and laborers.

B  Antifederalist leaders came out in support of the Constitution.

C  They exposed antifederalists as corrupt politicians.

D  They promised a bill of rights would be included

A  were mainly lawyers and merchants.

B  were loyalists who chose to remain in the states.

C  disliked that the Constitutional Convention was held in secret

D  were mainly from southern states.

A  George Mason

B  George Washington

C  James Madison

D  Thomas Jefferson