2019-2020 Quiz Bowl

*A set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government.

• Constitution

• English Bill of Rights

• Suffrage

• Ratification

*An agreement stating that three-fifths of a state's slave population would count when determining representation in government.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• New Jersey Plan

• Great Compromise

• Virginia Plan

*Which of the following acts limited colonists' westward movement past the Appalachian Mountains?

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Act

• Declaration of Boundaries

• Proclamation of 1763

*Which of the following philosophers is associated with Enlightenment ideas used in the colonies?

• John Locke

• Squanto

• William Penn

• Jonathan Edwards

*This individual was an escaped slave that would go on to be a famed anti-slavery orator and writer. He famously posed the question, "What to the slave is the 4th of July?"

• Malcolm X

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Solomon Northup

*To become president, a candidate must receive a majority of ____.

• the popular vote

• the electoral vote

• both the popular and the electoral vote

• the congressional vote

*What was the name of the journey in which kidnapped Africans were transported to the Americas and forced into slavery?

• triangular trade

• Tidewater

• Middle Passage

• Plantation system

*Initially, Abraham Lincoln did not want to make the Civil War about abolishing slavery because _____.

• he supported slavery

• he didn't think it was that important

• he didn't want to lose the border states

• he thought it would eventually die out

*The number of representatives each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives is based on _____.

• when the state came into the union

• the state's population

• the state's physical size

• the number of Senators

*Which of the following was NOT part of Alexander Hamilton's plan to improve the economy?

• create a national bank

• propose tax incentives for small businesses

• develop a protective tariff

• repay citizens for purchasing war bonds