Name __________________________
Constitution Study Sheet
Period _____
50 Points
1. Bicameral
12. Shays’s Rebellion
2. Republic
13. Quakers & Slavery
3. Articles of Confederation
14. Constitutional Convention
4. Ordinance of 1785
15. Rhode Island
5. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
16. John Adams
6. Robert Morris
17. Jonathan Dayton
7. Britain
18. Benjamin Franklin
8. Spain
19. Elbridge Gerry
9. Economic depression
20. Alexander Hamilton
10. Inflation
21. Patrick Henry
11. Daniel Shays
22. John Jay
23. Thomas Jefferson
35. John Locke
24. James Madison
36. Two Treatises of Civil Government
25. George Mason
37. Baron de Montesquieu
26. Gouverneur Morris
38. The Spirit of Laws
27. William Paterson
39. Federalism
28. Edmund Randolph
40. Article I
29. Roger Sherman
41. Article II
30. George Washington
42. Article III
31. James Wilson
43. Article V
32. Great Compromise
44. Article VI
33. Three-Fifths Compromise
45. Congress
34. September 17, 1787
46. House of Representatives
47. Senate
59. Antifederalists
48. President
60. Delaware
49. Vice President
61. New Hampshire
50. Electoral College
62. Preamble
51. Cabinet
63. E pluribus unum
52. Supreme Court
64. Amendments
53. Judiciary Act (1789)
65. Bill of Rights
54. John Marshall
66. Second Amendment
55. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
67. Third Amendment
56. Judicial review
68. Fifth Amendment
57. Federalists
69. Eighth Amendment
58. The Federalist Papers
70. Ninth Amendment
71. Tenth Amendment
76. Eighteenth Amendment
72. Thirteenth Amendment
77. Nineteenth Amendment
73. Fifteenth Amendment
78. 21st Amendment
74. Sixteenth Amendment
79. 22nd Amendment
75. Seventeenth Amendment
80. 26th Amendment
It is highly recommended, but not required, that you answer these questions on a
separate piece of paper so that you may be fully prepared for the essay portion of the test.
I. Explain how the legislatures proposed by the Virginia and New Jersey plans were
different. Who introduced each plan? Who arranged the Great Compromise? How
were elements of both plans implemented in the Constitution?
II. Identify and explain the six goals expressed in the Preamble of the Constitution.
III. Explain the system of checks and balances created by the Framers of the
Constitution. (How is the power of the legislative branch checked by the other
branches? How is the power of the executive branch checked by the other
branches? How is the power of the judicial branch checked by the other branches?)
1. What powers did the Confederation Congress (Congress under the Articles of Confederation) have? What
powers did they not have? How were they supposed to raise funds or troops?
2. What were the four major accomplishments achieved by the United States while the Articles of
Confederation were in effect?
3. Under the Constitution, what broad powers does the federal government have? What powers were given to
state governments? What powers do both federal and state governments have under the Constitution?
4. What were the different fears of Federalists and Antifederalists?
5. How can a Constitutional amendment be proposed? What must happen for an amendment to be ratified?
6. Who was eligible to vote in 1789? Identify the four amendments that have expanded voting rights (and to
whom) since 1789.
7. What five rights/freedoms are guaranteed by the First Amendment?
8. Identify and explain the five basic principles expressed in the Constitution.
9. Identify and explain the five major roles of the President.
10. Besides the President and Vice President, who else is part of the executive branch (do not use acronyms)?