Creating the Constitution HOT Test REVIEW

How did Shays’ Rebellion encourage people to push for a plan to revise the Articles of Confederation?

• It made people worry about how a weak central government might respond to future rebellions.
• It encouraged farmers to petition state governments for economic relief.
• It gave members of the rebellion more political power.

What answer choice accurately fills in the missing information in this Checks and Balances Diagram?

• The President can appoint judges to the courts.
• The President is not able to check the Congress.
• The President can veto Congressional legislation.

The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words?

• We the People
• We the British
• The United States of America

What branch of government includes the President, Vice President and Cabinet?

• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial

Which branch of government interprets the laws?

• Executive
• Legislative
• Judicial

Which of these resolved the conflict between the two plans of government shown?

• The Great Compromise
• 3/5 Compromise
• The Representation Compromise

What are the three branches of government?

• Executive, President, Cabinet
• Executive, Legislative, Judicial
• Congress, Senate, House of Representatives

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

• The United States of America created a constitutional monarchy
• Many American colonists feared a powerful government.
• Everyone left America and moved to Canada.

Which statement BEST reflects Noah Webster’s position in this quote?

• Smaller states have more power than larger states.
• States should have the right to ignore national legislation.
• Individual states have too much power to form a true union.

Smaller states opposed the Virginia Plan because they:

• feared they would not have enough power in the new Congress.
• wanted a weak executive branch.
• disliked James Madison.