Chapter 8 Creating The Constitution Part 1 Question Preview (ID: 36837)


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What key issue divided the framers of the constitution?
a) Where should the government’s power to rule come from, the states or the people?
b) Where should they meet?
c) Who should be invited?
d) What should they eat?

What is a Constitution?
a) A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.
b) A place where weapons and ammunition are stored.
c) A region designed by Congress and organized under a governor.
d) A treaty between nations.

What did the delegates decide to do with the Articles of Confederation?
a) They decided to throw them out and write a new constitution.
b) They decided to add to them to make them easier to understand.
c) They decided to keep them.
d) They decided to frame them.

What did this uprising show?
a) It showed that the nation was falling apart.
b) How strong the nation was.
c) How important Shay was.
d) None are true.

Shays’s Rebellion is remembered today because it
a) Shocked Congress into calling for a Constitutional Convention.
b) Threatened law and order in Massachusetts.
c) Dramatixed the money problems faced by poor farmers.
d) Showed how well the Articles of Confederation worked.

Why couldn’t Congress stop Shay?
a) They had disbanded the Continental Army.
b) They didn’t want to stop Shay.
c) They did stop Shay.
d) Shay was the son of the king.

What is an Arsenal?
a) A place where weapons and ammunition are stored.
b) A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.
c) A region designed by Congress and organized under a governor.
d) A building.

What is a territory?
a) A region designed by Congress and organized under a governor.
b) A written plan that provides the basic framework of a government.
c) A place where weapons and ammunition are stored.
d) A secret hideout.

The Articles of Confederation did all of the following EXCEPT
a) Divide power among three branches of government.
b) Serve as the first plan of government for the United States.
c) Form a loose union of the states.
d) Give Congress power to make war and peace.

What was the rule of secrecy?
a) What was said in the convention stayed in the convention.
b) The meeting place was a secret.
c) There was no rule of secrecy.
d) What they ate was a secret.

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