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What was the first American constitution that ultimately failed?
a) Articles of Confederation
b) William Patterson
c) James Madison
d) John Dickinson

Which American document gave states too much power and made the federal government too weak?
a) Articles of Confederation
b) Roger Sherman
c) William Patterson
d) James Madison

____: Called for a bicameral legislature with one house based on population and one house based on equal representation.
a) Roger Sherman
b) William Patterson
c) James Madison
d) sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement)

Called for a unicameral legislature where each state would have equal representation in Congress.
a) William Patterson
b) Roger Sherman
c) James Madison
d) Articles of Confederation

Called for a bicameral legislature where representation would be based on population
a) James Madison
b) John Dickinson
c) William Patterson
d) Roger Sherman

This branch makes laws
a) the legislative branch
b) the judicial branch
c) the executive branch
d)

This branch enforces laws
a) the executive branch
b) the legislative branch
c) the judicial branch
d)

This branch interprets laws
a) the judicial branch
b) the legislative branch
c) the executive branch
d)

Define Checks and Balances
a) Powers of each branch are checked and balanced by the other branches
b) slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the House of Representatives and for tax purposes
c) a change or addition to the terms of a contract, law, government regulatory filing, or other documents
d) legislature with 1 vote for each state

Define Amendment
a) a change or addition to the terms of a contract, law, government regulatory filing, or other documents
b) sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement)
c) Powers of each branch are checked and balanced by the other branches
d) legislature with 1 vote for each state

Define Unicameral and Bicameral
a) legislature with 1 vote for each state
b) Supremacy Clause
c) slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the House of Representatives and for tax purposes
d) sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement)

Define Ratify:
a) sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement)
b) legislature with 1 vote for each state
c) slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the House of Representatives and for tax purposes
d) a change or addition to the terms of a contract, law, government regulatory filing, or other documents

Describe the 3 /5 Compromise
a) slaves would count as 3/5 a person for the House of Representatives and for tax purposes
b) legislature with 1 vote for each state
c) sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement)
d) Federalists

____ declares that the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
a) Supremacy Clause
b) Anti-Federalists
c) Federalists
d) Bill of rights

Who favored a loose interpretation of the Constitution? A strict one?
a) Federalists
b) Anti-Federalists
c) Supremacy Clause
d) Bill of rights

Which group called for a Bill of Rights?
a) Anti-Federalists
b) Federalists
c) Bill of rights
d) Supremacy Clause

What was needed to persuade states to ratify the Constitution?
a) Bill of rights
b) Anti-Federalists
c) Federalists
d) Supremacy Clause

Define Judicial Review.
a) authority of Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional
b) Anti-Federalists
c) Bill of rights
d) Federalists

Describe the Whiskey Rebellion, including what the significance of it was.
a) farmers from Western Pennsylvania rose up in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation and provided the nation with crisis
b) Treaty of San Lorenzo
c) Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
d) Marbury v. Madison

___ was an agreement between Spain and the United States. It granted the US access to the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans.
a) Treaty of San Lorenzo
b) Louisiana Purchase (1803)
c) Marbury v. Madison
d) Treaty of Ghent

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