View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject were the delegates debating in Chapter 6?

2. What theory was flourishing in the 1770s in America?

3. What did James Madison support?

4. What did delegates suggest would happen if state legislatures chose Representatives for the House?

5. What did Mr. Hamilton argue during the debate over the length of Senatorial term-lengths?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems were Americans having with the Articles of Confederation?

2. What paradox does James Madison articulate about the need for a strong federal government?

3. Why was constitutional monarchy unpopular?

4. What did delegates object to in the Virginia Plan?

5. What were the forms of government being considered at the Constitutional Convention?

6. In what ways were delegates afraid of executive power?

7. What was the Great Compromise?

8. What was Alexander Hamilton's argument about the need for a central government?

9. What particular example of separation of powers did delegates argue over?

10. What did delegates discuss regarding the appointment of judges?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the delegates at the Constitutional Convention ensure separation of powers? What measures within the ratified Constitution created the checks and balances that would ensure separation of powers?

Essay Topic 2

Explore the paradox that a government needs to be strong in order to protect the people from the government itself. How was this notion handled by the delegates at the Constitutional Convention? What allowances were made so that the government was neither too strong nor too weak? What allowances were made to protect individual freedom?

Essay Topic 3

Delegates and other leaders published articles for and against ratification after the Constitutional Convention, and they used pen names that were often shared between authors. Why did delegates use pen names, and how was the debate affected by authors hiding themselves behind pseudonyms?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 728 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample