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Number 1. (blank) headed the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation.

a. Daniel Shays
b. George Washington
c. John Adams
d. John Dickinson

Correct Answer: c. John Adams

Number 2. (blank)was the last state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

a. Rhode Island
b. Virginia
c. Maryland
d. Delaware

Correct Answer: c. Maryland

Number 3. A (blank) is when a governmental authority imposes or collects a tax.

a. taxation without representation
b. levy
c. bicameral
d. unicameral

Correct Answer: b. levy

Number 4. The (blank) was the first written plan of government for the United States.

a. Articles of Confederation
b. Declaration of Independence
c. Mayflower Compact
d. Bill of Rights

Correct Answer: a. Articles of Confederation

Number 5. The nation's first system of national government consisted of only a single, or (blank), congress.

a. bicameral
b. unicameral
c. parliamentary
d. none of the above

Correct Answer: b. unicameral

Number 6. (blank) created the first organized territory of the U.S., the Northwest Territory, and established a plan for settling new territory and admitting new states.

a. Land Ordinance of 1785
b. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
c. Proclamation of 1763
d. Missouri Compromise

Correct Answer: b. Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Number 7. (blank)was unanimously elected presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

a. Ben Franklin
b. Roger Sherman
c. James Madison
d. George Washington

Correct Answer: d. George Washington

Number 8. (blank) is sometimes called the "Father of the Constitution"; his Virginia Plan promoted the concept of public officials elected by the people, and a large republican government.

a. Ben Franklin
b. Roger Sherman
c. James Madison
d. George Washington

Correct Answer: c. James Madison

Number 9. (blank) was a failed rebellion of Massachusetts farmers against the government. The farmers, led by Daniel Shays, were upset by debt and taxes levied by the state legislature, which was seeking ways to raise revenue to pay off the state's Revolutionary War debt.

a. Shays' Rebellion
b. Farmers Rebellion
c. Farmers Insurrection
d. Shays Insurrection

Correct Answer: a. Shays' Rebellion

Number 10. The Constitutional Convention was held in (blank) in 1787.

a. The U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
b. Ben Franklin’s house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
c. Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. Independence Hall, New York

Correct Answer: c. Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Number 11. The (blank) favored larger states; it proposed a bicameral legislature with representation based on population.

a. New Hampshire Plan
b. New Jersey Plan
c. New York Plan
d. Virginia Plan

Correct Answer: d. Virginia Plan

Number 12. The (blank), which proposed a unicameral legislature with equal representation from each state, was created in response to the Virginia Plan.

a. New Hampshire Plan
b. New Jersey Plan
c. New York Plan
d. Virginia Plan

Correct Answer: b. New Jersey Plan

Number 13. (blank) created the New Jersey Plan.

a. James Monroe
b. Roger Sherman
c. Edmund Randolph
d. William Patterson

Correct Answer: d. William Patterson

Number 14. The Virginia Plan, mostly written by James Madison, was proposed to the Constitutional Convention by (blank), a gifted public speaker.

a. James Monroe
b. Roger Sherman
c. Edmund Randolph
d. William Patterson

Correct Answer: c. Edmund Randolph

Number 15. The (blank) Compromise was an agreement reached by delegates to the Constitutional Convention over representation in Congress; it provided for a bicameral legislature with equal representation in the upper house (Senate) and representation based on population in the lower house (House of Representatives).

a. Connecticut Compromise
b. Great Compromise
c. Three-Fifths Compromise
d. Slavery Compromise

Correct Answer: b. Great Compromise

Number 16. (blank), one of Connecticut's delegates to the Constitutional Convention, proposed the "Connecticut Compromise” (also known as the "Great Compromise").

a. James Monroe
b. Roger Sherman
c. Edmund Randolph
d. William Patterson

Correct Answer: b. Roger Sherman

Number 17. The (blank) Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from the northern and southern states over slavery; slaves were to count as 3/5 of a person for the purpose of representation and taxation.

a. Connecticut Compromise
b. Great Compromise
c. Three-Fifths Compromise
d. Slavery Compromise

Correct Answer: c. Three-Fifths Compromise

Number 18. Shays’ Rebellion was significant because (blank).

a. it provided evidence that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to govern effectively.
b. it strengthened the position of the Anti-Federalists.
c. it strengthened the position of the Federalists.
d. it prompted the writing of The Federalist Papers.

Correct Answer: a. it provided evidence that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to govern effectively.