US Gov’t
Crash Course Extra Credit
Constitutional Compromises
1. Name the first government established by
the United States. What was the problem
with it?
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2. Name two branches of government that did not exist under the Articles of
Confederation.
3. What was the biggest deficiency of the Confederate government?
4. Under which proposed plan of government was representation to be arranged only
on the basis of population, therefore favoring the large states.
5. Which proposed plan of government would ensure that small states would not be
dominated by the larger states?
6. What kind of legislature was proposed by Roger Sherman’s Great Compromise?
7. What issue made it difficult to decide how to count a state’s population?
8. Explain the Three-Fifths Compromise.
9. How many of the 13 states had to ratify the Constitution in order for it to go into
effect?
10. What was The Federalist Papers? Name one of its three authors.
11. Federalists tended to belong to what group in society?
12. Where did Anti-Federalists feel that government could be best practiced in the
United States?
13. What did Federalists have to offer in order to get the Constitution ratified?
14. What action is often regarded today as something to avoid in government, even
though it is actually the basis of much of the Constitution?