Chapter 5 Test Review

________________________________ means 'divided into two houses.'

• Confederation

• Great Compromise

• Bicameral

• Federalism

What influence did the English Bill of Rights have on the colonists' view of government?

• Checks and balances

• Rights of citizens

• Economic freedom

• Written plan of government

Once the colonies declared their independence, they had to be ready to govern themselves. Named the _______________________________, it established a 'league of friendship' among the states.

• Constitution

• Ordinance of 1785

• Electoral College

• Articles of Confederation

Based on the excerpt below, which action would George Mason want included in the Constitution?

There is no Declaration of Rights, and the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitution of the several States, the Declarations of Rights in the separate States are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law. 

-George Mason 

• a way to amend the Constitution to include a Bill of Rights

• a way to amend the Constitution to protect the rights of government officials

• making the Constitution difficult to change to protect its integrity

• making the Constitution easy to change to allow for differences of opinions

The _______________________________________ proposed that Congress would have two houses -a Senate and a House of Representatives. Each state would have two members in the Senate, and the number of seats in the House of Representatives would reflect a state's population.

• Great Compromise

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Electoral College

• Articles of Confederation

Which phrase best indicates the Framers' intent that the Constitution should provide for peace throughout the United States?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common [defense], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

-U.S. Constitution

• 'to form a more perfect Union'

• 'establish Justice'

• 'insure domestic Tranquility'

• 'promote the general Welfare'

Every five enslaved persons would equal three free persons. This compromise was known as _____________________________.

• The Great Compromise

• The Three-Fifths Compromise

• Popular sovereignty

• The Supremacy Clause

What could be said about Montesquieu's ideas on separation of powers?

• They were based on traditional forms of government.

• They presented common British thinking of the time.

• They were based on the ideas from the American colonies.

• They presented a forward-thinking (new) way of governing.

Americans who SUPPORTED the proposed Constitution were known as _________________________________.

• Federalists

• Anti-federalists

• Enlightenment thinkers

• Confederates

How did the Constitution deal with a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• It created an executive branch to carry out laws.

• It provided for a legislature to make laws.

• It allowed each state to have sovereignty.

• It limited the powers of government through checks and balances.