Study Guide for Unit 3 Test:  Pre-Constitution

 

1.        Know the following words and their definitions:

 

a.                 compromise

b.                bill of rights

c.                 constitution

d.                Northwest Ordinance

e.                ratify

f.                  confederation

g.                 popular sovereignty

h.                limited government

i.                   separation of powers

j.                  checks and balances

k.                 federalism

l.                   republicanism

m.              individual rights

 

                                                                                                                                                            

2.       Know and understand the words and meanings of the preamble of the Constitution.

3.       Why did the Anti-Federalists not have a plan for approval of the Constitution?

4.       What was the Federalists’ plan for approval of the Constitution?

5.       What was the 3/5s compromise?

6.       What was the Virginia Plan and whom did it favor?

7.       What was the New Jersey Plan and whom did it favor?

8.       What was the Great Compromise and what did it say?

9.       What did most state constitutions have that the original US Constitution did not have?

10.   How did Shays’ Rebellion encourage a plan to revise the Articles of Confederation?

11.   The opening phrase of the Constitution, “We the people,” means that the Constitution gets its power from whom?

12.   Know the names of the most famous Federalists (see wkbk)

13.   Know the names of the most famous Anti-Federalists (see wkbk)

14.   What were some of the reasons people wanted to change the Articles of Confederation?

15.   Why were the main reasons the Anti-Federalists were against approval of the Constitution?

 

PM ONLY: 

1.       What state ratified the Constitution first?  Last?

2.       What state was seen as the biggest/most powerful at the Constitutional Convention?

3.       What was at stake—in others words, why was the ratification of the Constitution so important?  Be prepared to write your answers in short answer form.