Name _____________________________ Class _________________ Date __________________
Section Quiz
Forming a New Nation
Section 2
FILL IN THE BLANK For each of the following statements, fill in the
blank with the appropriate word, phrase, or name.
1. _______________________ is called the Father of the Constitution because of his
role in the document’s planning and writing.
2. They key delegates to the Constitutional Convention are now called the
_______________________.
3. Edmund Randolph presented the _______________________, which proposed a
government with three branches, including a bicameral legislature with membership
based on population.
4. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution were known as
_______________________.
5. The _______________________ were a series of pro-Constitution essays written by
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, but attributed to Publius.
6. The _______________________ was America’s first national constitution.
7. During _______________________ angry farmers, led by a former Continental
Army captain, shut down debtor courts.
8. Before agreeing to ratify the Constitution, most opponents wanted a
_______________________ added to it to ensure protection of individual liberties.
9. The Constitution set up a system of _______________________, in which each
branch of government could delay or stop an action taken by one of the other
branches.
10. Under the system laid out in the Constitution, the _______________________ branch
includes the president and the departments that help run the government.
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Answer Key
Chapter Test, Form B
Chapter 2: Forming a
New Nation
SHORT ANSWER
1. The removal of as many as 20 million
Africans caused depopulation in some
African countries and caused divisions
among peoples. Africa was left weakened.
2. The Columbian Exchange was the
exchange of plants and animals between
Europeans, Native Americans, and
Africans. Horses were brought to the
Americas by Europeans, as well as deadly
diseases. American food products were
taken to Europe.
3. Indentured servants were people who
agreed to work as servants for a set
number of years in return for food, shelter,
and passage to America. Indentured
servitude was widely used in the colonies
until it became difficult to recruit
indentured servants. It was replaced with
slavery.
4. The Spanish social hierarchy in America
was based mainly on a person’s ancestry.
The people with the highest social stature
were peninsulares, who came from Spain.
Creoles, the next rung down, were
European, but born in the Americas.
Mestizos, lower on the social scale than
creoles, were of mixed Spanish and Native
American descent. The lowest orders
included people of mixed Spanish and
African descent, Africans, and Indians.
5. Salutary neglect means benefiting from
being left alone. The colonies benefited
from the salutary neglect of the English
government because the lack of strict rule
from Great Britain gave the colonies a
chance to develop self-government
through town meetings or local elected
assemblies.
Section Quiz
SECTION 1
1. c
2. b
3. a
4. d
5. b
SECTION 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
James Madison
Framers
Virginia Plan
Antifederalists
Federalist Papers
Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
Bill of Rights
checks and balances
executive
SECTION 3
1. F; The cabinet is made up of heads of
government departments who advise the
president.
2. T
3. F; Congress originally established a sixmember Supreme Court.
4. F; The Louisiana Territory was purchased
from France.
5. T
Chapter Test, Form A
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
PRACTICING SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS
a
b
c
a
a
6. c
7. d
8. d
9. b
10. c
PRACTICING SOCIAL STUDIES
SKILLS
1. The first three colonies were Virginia,
established in 1607; the Plymouth Colony
in Massachusetts, established in 1620; and
New Hampshire, founded in 1623.
1. d
FILL IN THE BLANK
1. the Whiskey Rebellion
2. Valley Forge
3. Antifederalists
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