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Question

1. Which sentence best describes how Shay's Rebellion shaped the concerns of many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention?

a. After Shay's Rebellion, many delegates were concerned about tyrannical government power.

b. After Shay's Rebellion, many delegates were concerned about the right to bear arms.

c. Many delegates were concerned about a strong banking system after so many debtors joined Shay's Rebellion.

d. After Shay's Rebellion, many delegates were concerned about a weak central government unable to solve collective action problems quickly in times of crisis.

2. Which statement best describes the political position of proponents of the New Jersey Plan in their dispute with the supporters of the Virginia Plan?

a. The proponents of the New Jersey Plan wanted more power to be given to small states.

b. The proponents of the New Jersey Plan wanted a more limited national authority.

c. The proponents of the New Jersey Plan wanted power to be allocated based on population.

d. The proponents of the New Jersey Plan wanted a more expansive national authority.

3. Which of these statements best describes Federalist #51's argument in favor of checks and balances?

a. Checks and balances helps government work more efficiently by allowing different branches to work simultaneously at solving a variety of problems.

b. Checks and balances gives men of intelligence and education in the judiciary the ability to invalidate rash actions by elected factions.

c. Checks and balances allows government to control itself rather than merely relying on elections.

d. Checks and balances helps ensure that the cause of government failures are transparent to voters.

4. Which of the following statements bests explains the failure of states to contribute adequate resources toward the Revolutionary War?

a. A free-rider problem.

b. An over-reliance on France.

c. A tragedy of the commons.

d. Agency loss.

5. Which states' compromise at the Constitutional Convention resulted in commercial concessions in exchange for allowing slavery?

a. Large (populous) and small states

b. Northern and Southern states.

c. States with large merchant and fishing industry and states with small farm-dominated economies.

6. Whose compromise at the Constitutional Convention resulted in a Senate representing individual states and a House reflecting population size?

a. Large and small states

b. Northern and Southern states.

c. States with large merchant and fishing industry and states with small farm-dominated economies.

7. What part of the Constitution explicitly forbade the U.S. government from searching private property without a warrant?

a. This rule is not explicitly in the Constitution.

b. This rule is in the Bill of Rights (Amendment IV of the U.S. Constitution).

c. This rule is in the original US Constitution (Article IV) of the U.S. Constitution.

8. What statement best describes Thomas Jefferson's relationship to the children he fathered with his slave, Sally Hemings?

a. Jefferson's children with Hemings were free, but were not given the same educational opportunities as the children he had with his wife.

b. Jefferson treated Hemings' children the same as he treated the children he had with his wife with the same educational opportunities.

c. Jefferson's children with Hemings were slaves, and while allowed to leave his service, at least one was never formally freed.