Sign up for FREE

US Constitution CFA

Last updated over 1 year ago

9 questions

2

2

4

2

2

2

2

2

2

Question 1

1.

What were the Articles of Confederation?

Another name for the U.S. Declaration of Independence

The first name of the country.

The first U.S. constitution.

A law.

Question 2

2.

What event showed the country that the Articles of Confederation were weak and not working?

Shay’s Rebellion.

The Constitutional Convention.

The Revolutionary War.

The Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist Debates.

Question 3

3.

What was the difference between the New Jersey Plan & the Virginia Plan?

Question 4

4.

What does the word “ratify” mean?

To oppose.

To replace.

To add.

To approve.

Question 5

5.

How did the Federalists convince the Anti-Federalists to support the Constitution?

They bribed the Anti-Federalists.

They threatened a civil war if they did not support it.

They promised to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

They promised that the first President would be an Anti-Federalist.

Question 6

6.

Which branch of government creates laws?

The Legislative Branch / Congress.

The Executive Branch / The President.

The Judicial Branch / The Supreme Court.

None of the above.

Question 7

7.

Which of the following is a power of the President / Executive Branch?

The power to overturn an election.

The power to veto laws passed by Congress.

The power to declare war.

The power to declare laws unconstitutional in the court system.

Question 8

8.

What is the primary responsibility of the Supreme Court?

To write and create laws.

To veto laws.

To elect the President of the United States.

To review whether or not laws follows the Constitution’s rules.

Question 9

9.

Why are there three branches of government?

Because France had three branches of government and we wanted to copy them.

To prevent any one branch of government from getting too much power.

Two branches of government serve as emergency backups in case the other can’t do its job.

None of the above.