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US Civilisation Session 4 (2024)

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quiz Session 4

US Civilisation

1777

1788

1763

When were the Articles of Confederation written?

One chamber representing the people of the United States

One chamber representing the States

2 chambers representing the people of the United States

How was the US legislative power organised between 1777 and 1788?

1787

1790

1777

When did the US government decide to change the Articles of Confederation?

The Virginia Plan

The New Jersey Plan

The Connecticut Compromise

Which plan to change the US Constitution would have put in place a bi-cameral legislature with a representation proportional to the US population in both houses?

The Virginia Plan

The New Jersey Plan

The Connecticut Compromise

Which plan was finally adopted for drafting the US Constitution in 1787?

Three-fifths of the delegates at the Continental Congress will be given more power.

Slaves will be counted as three-fifths of a person in the counting of the US population.

The Senate will represent three-fifths of the thirteen states.

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists

The Consitutionalists and the Anti-Constitutionalists

The Democrats and the Republicans

What was the name given to the two diverging groups in the drafting of the US Consitution?

There was no bill of rights.

Too much power was given to the States governments.

It did not give women the right to vote.

What was the main reason for the Anti-Federalists to refuse to ratify the new US Consitution?

The separation of powers

The right to vote given to all Americans

A one-house legislative power

Which form of government did Montesquieu, Hobbes and Locke advocate in their philosophical works which inspired the new American Constitution?

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Check-and-balance system

Absolute Monarchist system

Power-against-power system

What is the name given to the US government system in which each form of power can control each other?

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