Government Chapter 2

The New Jersey Plan was designed to stay closer to which document?

Articles of Confederation

who was the oldest person at the Constitutional Convention

Benjamin Franklin

The first ten amendments to the constitution are traditional called the

Bill of Rights

The first state to ratify the Constitution

Delaware

Which of the following was a set of laws that limited the power of government and gave all free men the right to choose judges?

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

What did the Constitution do about the Atlantic slave trade?

It barred Congress from banning the slave trade for 20 years

The first state to write a consitution

New Hampshire

Why did large states favor the Virginia Plan?

Representation in the legislature would be based on population

What type of colony where most of the colonies

Royal

Which date is when the Consitution was signed by 39 delegates in Philly?

September 17, 1787

Montesquieu

The Framers took the idea of seperation of powers from with philosopher?

How did the Northwest Ordinance differ from the Constitution on the issue of slavery

The Northwest ordinance banned slavery in the territory, while the Constitution temporarily protected the slave trade

Why did the colonists resent the taxes imposed by Parliament begining in 1764

The colonists had no representation in Parliament

what important event occurred three weeks before the second continental congress met?

The shot heard around the world

Why did Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Mad write the Federalist Papers?

They wrote the articles in defense of the new Constitution

who wrote Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Republican ideas can be traced back to which of the following?

ancient Greece and rome

Thomas Jefferson argued in the Deceleration of Independence that, if a government disregards the will of the people, the people are free to do which of the following?

change their government

Which type of colony enjoyed the most independence from the Crown

charter

Anti federalists believed that representative government..

could only exist in a small territory

according to the 3/5 compromise, three fifths of a state's slave population would be

counted when determining representation in congress

one of the purposes of the New England Confederation was to

defend against threats posed by Native Americans

for which reason is James Madison hailed as the Father of the Constitution

he greatly influenced the outcome of the convention

Parliament imposed a series of taxes on the colonies beginning in 1764 in order to

help pay Britains debts resulting from the French and Indian War

What ideal did the antifederalists find the constitution lacked?

individual rights

For the Confederation Congress to pass any major legislation, how many states have to agree

nine

According to the Constitution, a state's electors would be equal to what?

number of representatives in both houses of Congess

which of the following was the Confederation Congress' greatest success

passage of the Northwest Ordinance

which was the most pressing challenge face the Confederation Congress

paying of the war debt

Delegates gathered in Philadelphia in May of 1787 to do what?

revise the Articles of Confederation

Under the Articles of Confederation, most government power was retained by which?

sates

Why was the great compromise acceptable to the smaller states?

states would be represented equally in the Senate

The Stamp Act marked Parliament's first attempt to

tax the colonists directly