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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Introduction to the Constitution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cullop asserts which term for American government is correct?
(a) Democratic republic.
(b) Independent republic.
(c) Republican democracy.
(d) Democratic confederation.

2. Together the group in Philadelphia constructed the Constitution requiring a federal government comprised of which three branches?
(a) Democratic, Republican, and Independent.
(b) Democratic, Republican, and Whig.
(c) President, Senate, and House of Representatives.
(d) Executive, legislative, and judicial.

3. The government under the Articles of Confederation would be supervised by an assembly of people called a Congress, restricted in what fashion?
(a) Could not impose laws, raise an army, or introduce taxes.
(b) Could not raise an army, or introduce taxes.
(c) Could not impose laws, or introduce taxes.
(d) Could not impose laws, or raise an army.

4. Some say the government of the U.S. is one in which the people are responsible for self-governing, or what Cullop calls what?
(a) Republic.
(b) Independence.
(c) Confederation.
(d) Democracy.

5. Drafting the Constitution was a difficult task, and there had to be how many main compromises in order to arrive at a final decision?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the Constitution go into effect?

2. The new Constitution required that which federal branch of government would be responsible for making laws?

3. How did people eventually refer to this initial document?

4. When Cullop states the U.S. has a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," whom is he quoting?

5. The U.S. is a group of individual states that afford certain specific duties and responsibilities to which government?

(see the answer key)

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