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