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