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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) George Washington
c) Benjamin Franklin
d) Robert Morris
Where where the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?
a) Lexington
b) Luxemberg
c) Louisville
d) Yorktown
Where did the British surrender to end the Revolutionary War?
a) Yorktown
b) Yorkville
c) Lexington
d) Luxemberg
Describe a typical delegate at the Constitutional Convention?
a) wealthy, prestigious, white
b) wealthy, prestigious, black
c) prestigious, white
d) wealthy, white
In what year did the Constitutional Convention meet?
a) 1787
b) 1767
c) 18178
d) 1677
What group supported ratification of the Constitution?
a) Federalists
b) Anti-Federalists
c) Democrats
d) Republicans
What group did not support the ratification of the constitution?
a) Anti-federalists
b) Federalists
c) Southerners
d) Republicans
How many states need to ratify the Constitution before it went into effect?
a) 9
b) 19
c) 10
d) 12
What did the people that fought against the constitution want to have added to it before they would ratify it?
a) Bill of Rights
b) Equal Representation
c) Amendements
d) Equal Rights
What were two goals of the First Continental Congress?
a) Complain to the British King, Put a tax on British Trade Goods
b) Complain to the Spanish King, Put a tax on British Trade Goods
c) Complain to the British King, Put a tax on Trade Goods
d) Create a Bill of Rights, Put a tax on British Trade Goods
What were two of the three main reasons the colonists were upset with the British?
a) Taxation without representation, quartering of soldiers
b) Taxation without representation, tax on goods
c) Taxation on goods, quartering of soldiers
d) no power to tax, no national courts
On what day was the Declaration of Independence signed and adopted?
a) July 4, 1776
b) July 4, 1774
c) July 4, 1677
d) July 4, 1676
What were two of the major weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
a) no power to tax, no national courts
b) no power to tax, quartering soldiers
c) no power to tax, taxation without representation
d) no national courts, taxation without representation
What two things decided by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention proved they didn't trust the people?
a) the people were not able to decide the senate (state legislatives did), electoral college could override decision
b) the people were not able to decide the senate (state legislatives did), adding national courts
c) adding national courts, electoral college could override decision
d) the people were able to decide the senate (state legislatives did), electoral college could override decision
Give two things in the Constitution that show the strength of it
a) a good way to add amendments, very basic
b) a good way to add amendments, complex
c) Very basic, and a way to elect government
d) complex, a way to elect government
What were three of the six purposes of the constitution as stated in the preamble?
a) make a more perfect union, establish justice, enforce general tranquility
b) make a more perfect union, establish justice, enforce general rowdiness
c) make a less perfect union, establish justice, enforce general tranquility
d) make a less perfect union, establish justice, enforce general rowdiness
What were three of the six purposes of the constitution as stated in the preamble?
a) provide for common defense, support the general welfare, support and establish a constitution for ourselves and posterity
b) provide for common need, support the general welfare, support and establish a constitution for ourselves and posterity
c) provide for common defense, support the general welfare, support and establish a constitution for other people
d) provide for common defense, support the general well being, support and establish a constitution for ourselves and posterity
How is the number of electoral votes a state receives determined?
a) # of representatives + # of senators
b) 1/3 of a state's population
c) 33% of a states population
d) # of representatives + # of senators /2
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