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Creating a Constitution
DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with the items in Column B.
Write the correct letters in the blanks. Some answers will be used more than once.
(3 points each)
Column A
1. voiced the Connecticut Compromise
A. James Madison
2. kept a record of the Convention debates
B. Benjamin Franklin
3. chosen to become the first president
C. Alexander
Hamilton
4. elderly at the time of the Constitutional Convention, his
experience and good humor helped smooth the debates
5. governor of Virginia who presented the Virginia Plan
6. main author of the Virginia Plan
7. proposed the New Jersey Plan
8. chaired the convention committee to resolve the differences
between the large and small states
9. delayed the final vote in New York until news arrived that
New Hampshire and Virginia had both ratified
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Column B
D. Edmund
Randolph
E. William Paterson
F.
Roger Sherman
G. George
Washington
H. Thomas Jefferson
10. unable to attend the Constitutional Convention because he
was serving as American minister to France
DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes each sentence or
answers each question. Write the letter in the blank. (4 points each)
11. The Confederation Congress’s major achievements included its system of
settling the west and
A. regulating trade.
C. collecting taxes.
B. negotiating commercial treaties.
D. enforcing treaties.
12. After the Revolutionary War, the taxes and restrictions the states imposed
on imported goods caused British merchants to
A. stop trading with the United States for several years.
B. fight back with import taxes on American goods going to Britain.
C. create a triangular trade agreement with France.
D. land their goods at states that had the lowest taxes or fewest restrictions.
13. People with greater income saw Shays’s Rebellion as a sign that
A. the income gap between the rich and poor was becoming too wide.
B. the national government was abusing its powers.
C. state governments needed to raise more money for security.
D. the republic itself was at risk.
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14. News of Shays’s Rebellion and unrest elsewhere convinced the Congress to
A. send federal troops to states where the government was abusing its power.
B. call a convention of the states to revise the Articles of Confederation.
C. call a convention of the states to revise the Constitution.
D. pass laws to provide relief for poor farmers who were losing their farms.
15. The only state that did not send delegates to the Constitutional
Convention was
A. Rhode Island.
C. Maine.
B. New Jersey.
D. Connecticut.
16. The Virginia Plan would benefit
A. small states with few people.
B. large states with many people.
C. wealthy planters and merchants.
D. Southern slaveholding states.
17. The Virginia Plan proposed creating a new government with the power
to make laws and
A. regulate trade.
C. select judges.
B. ban slave trade.
D. raise its own money through taxes.
19. The real issue for opponents of the Constitution was whether the
national government
A. was really needed.
C. would interfere with individual rights.
B. or state governments would be
D. would impose taxes.
supreme.
20. What cause resulted in the effect shown in the diagram?
Cause:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Effect: The states began setting up
customs posts on their borders and
levying taxes on one another’s goods.
The Confederation Congress was not allowed to raise money by imposing taxes.
The Confederation Congress was not allowed to regulate commerce.
The Confederation Congress was not allowed to make treaties.
The Confederation Congress had no president to settle disputes among the states.
DIRECTIONS: Essay Answer one of these questions on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points)
21. What problems resulted from the fact that the Confederation Congress was not
allowed to regulate trade with other countries or among the states?
22. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, in what ways were the
states divided?
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18. People pushing for ratification of the Constitution called themselves
A. Nationalists.
C. Federalists.
B. Antinationalists.
D. Antifederalists.