Exam 8: The Confederation and the Constitution

Why didn't the framers of the Constitution extend the Revolutionary War era spirit of equality and liberty to the abolition of slavery and giving women the right to vote?

Identify and state the historical significance of the Virginia Plan.

The "small-state plan" or New Jersey Plan presented at the Constitutional Convention included all of the following EXCEPT

In keeping with the spirit, if not the actual wording of the Declaration of Independence's affirmation that "All men are created equal," most states ____ property-holding requirements for voting.

Under the Constitution, the president of the United States was to be elected by a majority vote of the

The federalists believe that the sovereignty of the people resided in which branch of the central government?

Among other views, The Federalist, written during the ratification debate, argued that it was

The delegates at the Constitutional Convention were concerned mainly with

The "large-state plan," or Virginia Plan, put forward in the Constitutional Convention

Identify and state the historical significance of The Electoral College.

Adopted almost a decade before the federal constitution, the ____ constitution remains the longest-lived in the world.

The world's first antislavery society was founded by

Motives of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia included all of the following EXCEPT to

The delegate whose contributions to the Philadelphia Convention were so notable that he has been called the "Father of the Constitution" was

As written documents, the state constitutions functioned in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati

Identify and state the historical significance of Shays's Rebellion.

Identify and state the historical significance of The Federalist.

The Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South controversy over slavery through the

During the Revolutionary War, many states