US GOVERNMENT TEST

The first ten amendments were added to the Constitution to:

• Remove portions of the original Constitution

• Make changes in the election process

• Increase the power of the legislative branch

• Protect individual freedoms from governmental power

In this debate between Speaker A and Speaker B, Speaker A would most likely agree that the leaders of the nation should

• Add a bill of rights to the Constitution

• Increase the power of the Federal government

• Establish a monarchy

• Limit the right to vote to property owners

Who is being represented by Speaker A and Speaker B?

• Democrats and Republicans

• Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

• Loyalists and Patriots

Shay’s Rebellion is remembered today because it

• Threatened law and order in Massachusetts

• Shocked Congress into calling for an amendment to the Constitution

• Showed how well the Articles of Confederation worked.

• Showed how weak the Articles of Confederation was

The “Great Compromise” at the Constitutional Convention

• Settled issue of power between large and small states

• Devised a new way to determine representation in the Executive branch

• Created an end to the slave trade

• Returned most of the political power to the Judicial branch

The framers designed a system of checks and balances to

• Share power between national and state governments

• Make it difficult but not impossible to amend the Constitution

• Make sure that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land

• Keep any one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

A bill cannot become a law until it is

• Approved by Congress and judged constitutional by the Supreme Court

• Proposed by the President and approved by Congress

• Approved by Congress and signed by the President

• Proposed by Congress and ratified by the states

The president has the power to

• Ignore laws passed by Congress

• Change laws passed by Congress

• Pass laws without a vote of Congress

• Veto laws passed by Congress

In today’s Congress, the members of the House of Representatives is based off _____, while the members of the Senate is based off of

• Equal representation; population

• Population; equal representation

• Younger members; older members

• Higher population; lower population

Which of these states were most likely to favor representation in Congress based on population?

• Massachusetts and Pennsylvania

• South Carolina and Connecticut

• New Hampshire and New Jersey

• New York and Delaware