Chapter 9 Social Studies Test
  • 1. The Articles of Confederation and the Iroquois League were similar in that they both
A) Brought together different groups of people
B) Had a President
C) Stated people's desires to declare war on Britain
D) Were headed by women
  • 2. Which of these helps to keep one branch of government from gaining more power than another?
A) a system of checks and balances
B) The Bourne Identity
C) the Twenty-Fifth Comprimise
D) The electorial college
  • 3. When the people elect representatives to run the country, it is called a ________________________
A) Northwest Ordinance
B) republic
C) a national court system
D) slave state
  • 4. The Supreme Court is part of the
A) Executive Branch
B) Legislative Branch
C) Judicial Branch
D) Electorial College
  • 5. Which of these was a part of the national government under the Articles of Confederation?
A) a king
B) a queen
C) a grand old flag
D) a national legislature
  • 6. The executive branch is responsible for carrying out the nation's _________________
A) laws
B) taxes
C) coins and money
D) census
  • 7. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress has the authority to _________________
A) raise taxes
B) build bridges
C) elect a king or queen
D) print money
  • 8. This determines how many representatives a state will have in the House of Representatives
A) The population of the state
B) The amount of rich families in the state
C) whatever Brittany's D.A.R.E Report says there should be
D) the average height of the people in the state
  • 9. Setting up a system so that new states could be formed was the purpose of the ______________________
A) Articles of Confederation
B) Annapolis Convention
C) The Preamble to the Constitution
D) Northwest Ordinance
  • 10. Each state has __________ senators
A) 4
B) 3
C) 2
D) 1
  • 11. Which of these was a result of the Annapolis Convention of 1786?
A) The Articles of Confederation were written
B) Congress called the Constitutional Convention
C) Congress created a new national army
D) Each state started printing its own money
  • 12. The Three-fifths Comprimise that was reached at the Constitutional Convention involved the :
A) number of houses of Congress to be created
B) counting of slaves for the purposes of representation and taxation
C) amount of power that was given to the national government
D) number of British citizens allowed to live in the United States
  • 13. The Delegates to the Constitutional Convention met in
A) New York
B) Narnia
C) Philadelphia
D) Boston
  • 14. In a federal system of government, power and authority
A) belong only to the people of the states
B) are given to the states
C) are given to the cities
D) are shared by the national and state governments
  • 15. The slave trade would be stopped under the
A) Southern Plan
B) Northern Plan
C) Virginia Plan
D) New Jersey Plan
  • 16. Slaves would not be included in state population counts under the
A) Virginia Plan
B) Southern Plan
C) Northern Plan
D) New Jersey Plan
  • 17. The number of representatives from each state would be based on state population under the
A) Northern Plan
B) Southern Plan
C) New Jersey Plan
D) Virginia Plan
  • 18. Each state would have the SAME number of representatives to Congress under this plan
A) Southern Plan
B) Northern Plan
C) New Jersey Plan
D) Virginia Plan
  • 19. Slaves would be INCLUDED in state population counts
A) Virginia Plan
B) Southern Plan
C) New Jersey Plan
D) Northern Plan
  • 20. The slave trade would NOT be stopped
A) New Jersey Plan
B) Southern Plan
C) Northern Plan
D) Justin Bieber Plan
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