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Chapter 2: The Constitution

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz


This activity contains 22 questions.

	Shays's Rebellion was an outbreak of civil disorder against the British that preceded the American Revolution.    True  False

	Stay laws prevented the British government from encroaching on the autonomy of the American colonies.    True  False

	Colonists fought the American Revolution because they no longer wanted to be English subjects and they wanted to start a new nation.    True  False

	The writing of John Locke had a major influence on the Declaration of Independence.    True  False

	John Locke's political philosophy is inherently flawed because it allows people to obey only the laws with which they agree. In such a society it becomes impossible to enforce any type of law.    True  False

	The Declaration of Independence outlawed slavery in the colonies by including the phrase, "all men are created equal."    True  False

	The Founders envisioned the creation of a single, unified nation as the goal of the Revolution.    True  False

	Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government relied on the states voluntarily to contribute tax revenues to the central government.    True  False

	The Americans who led the nation in the Revolutionary War were supporters of broad-based popular participation and political equality for all persons.    True  False

	Republicanism is different from democracy in that republicanism allows for greater participation among citizens.    True  False

	To most of the Founders, republicanism and democracy were not identical.    True  False

	The issue of property rights is not a central concern of republican doctrine.    True  False

	The framers of the U.S. Constitution of 1787 were a representative cross-section of the American public.    True  False

	The general consensus among historians today is that the framers were motivated almost entirely by self-interest and a desire to make money.    True  False

	The Virginia Plan was a scheme submitted by the large states for organizing the new government in order to maximize their representation in the new national legislature.    True  False

	By far the most intense debate at the Constitutional Convention involved the issue of slavery and resulted in the Great Compromise.    True  False

	The supremacy clause in the U.S. Constitution states that the Constitution, all laws passed by Congress, and all treaties made by the U.S. government are the supreme law of the land. This means, for example, that if a state law is contrary to a national law, the state law can be overturned.    True  False

	Of the three branches of government created in the Constitution, only members of the House of Representatives (in the legislative branch) were made directly accountable to the people through direct popular election.    True  False

	The concept "checks and balances" means that each branch has power, but none is able to exercise all of its powers on its own.    True  False

	The Federalist Papers were a series of essays written on behalf of the Articles of Confederation.    True  False

	Ratification of the new Constitution was not difficult because all Americans agreed that the government under the Articles was a failure.    True  False

	The reason that the Constitution's meaning and application has changed so little in more than 200 years is that the only way to change it is formal amendment, and this is a very difficult process.    True  False

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