1. 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt The ConsitutionCompromises Bill of Rights American Government Misc.

2. Which of following people were two of the “Founding Fathers” who helped write the Constitution? 1.William Penn & Roger Williams 2.James Madison & Ben Franklin 3.Sam Adams and Thomas Jefferson 4.Peter Stuyvesant & William Bradford

3. Who are James Madison & Ben Franklin.

4. Why did America favor a written Constitution in 1789?

5. What is to clearly itemize the powers of government.

6. What was one of the major issues that the Constitutional Convention of 1787 addressed? 1.How to balance the powers of the national and state governments 2.How to resolve the conflicts between France and the U.S. 3.How to meet the demands of Eastern and Western states. 4.How to meet the needs of business and labor

7. What is 1.How to balance the powers of the national and state governments

8. Why did the Articles of Confederation provide for a weak central government?

9. What is Americans feared a strong central government might become too powerful.

10. What term best describes the system where each branch of government can control or limit the other two branches?

11. What is checks & balances

12. What agreement settled the issue of how slaves would be counted in determining a states population?

13. What is the 3/5 Compromise.

14. What disagreement did the Great Compromise settle?

15. What is representation in the House and Senate.

16. What was the main issue of the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan

17. What is representation in the Federal legislature.

18. What was agreed upon in the 3/5 Compromise?

19. 3/5 of the slave population was to be counted for representation in the House of Representation.

20. The adoption of the Bill of Rights marked the first time that the U.S. Constitution was

21. What is changed or Amended

22. The Right to trial by jury is guaranteed by what document?

23. What is the Bill of Rights

24. The Bill of Rights was mainly an attempt to…

25. Limit the power of the Government over the individual

26. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in order to protect the rights of what group?

27. Who are citizens.

28. A major argument against the ratification of the Constitution in 1787 was that it did not contain….

29. What is a Bill of Rights

30. What name is given to the first ten amendments to the Constituion?

31. What is the Bill of Rights.

32. What is the main responsibility of the executive branch

33. What is to enforce the law

34. What is the main responsibility of the legislative branch

35. What is to make the laws

36. What is the main responsibility of the judicial branch

37. What is to interpret the law

38. What is the introduction to the Constitution called

39. What is the Preamble.

40. What law created the plan for settling the Northwest territory?

41. What is the Land Ordinance of 1785.

42. I ended the Revolutionary War (hint: I’m NOT a person but a thing)

43. The Treaty of Paris

44. What song did the British play as they surrendered at Yorktown?

45. What is the world turned upside down.

46. My name means the same thing as ‘Traitor’

47. Who is Benedict Arnold

48. I tried to warn my countrymen about the dangers of Political Parties

49. Who was George Washington? He should of listened to me!

50. I helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Paris

51. Who was Ben Franklin? My picture is also on a 100 dollar bill!