Compromises Of The Constitution Question Preview (ID: 39606)


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Which compromise ensures states are empowered to pass, enforce, and interpret laws, as long as they do not violate the Constitution.
a) Great Compromise
b) 3/5ths Compromise
c) Commercial Compromise
d) Federalism

Which compromise related to (Apportionment) the method of distributing and allotting the seats in the House of Representatives in regard to Southern States with large slave populations?
a) Great Compromise
b) 3/5th Compromise
c) Commercial Compromise
d) Federalism

Which of the following was supported by the large states?
a) New Jersey Plan
b) Connecticut Plan
c) New York Plan
d) Virginia Plan

Which two plans joined together in the Great Compromise?
a) Virginia and New Jersey Plans
b) Georgia and Massachusetts Plans
c) New York and New Jersey Plans
d) Vermont and Virginia Plans

a plan for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branch to be chosen by the legislature.
a) New Jersey Plan
b) New York Plan
c) Virginia Plan
d) Georgia Plan

the idea of proportional representation in the lower house (House of Representatives) and equal representation of the states in the upper house (Senate).
a) 3/5ths Compromise
b) Great Compromise
c) New Jersey Plan
d) Commercial Compromise

allowed Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce yet prohibited any tariffs on exported goods.
a) Commercial Compromise
b) 3/5ths Compromise
c) Connecticut Compromise
d) Great Compromise

A person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority.
a) Federalists
b) Anti-Federalists
c) Federalism
d) Progressivism

the distribution of power in a government between a central authority and the supporting units.
a) Federalism
b) Federalists
c) Anti-Federalists
d) Progressives

the process for states to count slaves as part of the population for the federal government
a) Commercial Compromise
b) Virginia Compromise
c) Federalism
d) 3/5ths Compromise

a plan for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.
a) Virginia Plan
b) New Jersey Plan
c) New Hampshire Plan
d) New York Plan

Which compromise was reached by stating that Congress could not prohibit the slave trade until 1808, but imported slaves could be taxed?
a) 3/5ths Compromise
b) Great Compromise
c) Commercial Compromise
d) Federalism

Which compromise began with the debate that included the North wanting Congress to have power to regulate commerce, but the South fearing Congress would use its authority to end to the slave trade.
a) 3/5ths Compromise
b) Great Compromise
c) Commercial Compromise
d) Federalism

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