Week 6 Quiz

Under the Articles of Confederation, how were votes counted in Congress?

Select one.

• Each state cast votes in proportion to its population
• Each state had one vote
• Each state had two senators, and the House was chosen by population
• Each delegate voted alone, so larger delegations counted for more

The Articles of Confederation gave Congress the power to tax the states.

True or false.

• True
• False

The fragment "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory" comes from which document?

Select one.

• The Constitution of the United States
• The Federalist No. 10
• The Northwest Ordinance
• The Articles of Confederation

Which document does the pinned fragment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" come from?

Select one.

• The Articles of Confederation
• The Bill of Rights
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Federalist No. 10

How does the course's roster classify the Articles of Confederation, and which host keeps the text the course reads?

Select one.

• A frame of government, kept by the Avalon Project
• A set of constitutional amendments, kept by the National Archives
• A newspaper essay, kept by Founders Online
• An ordinance of the Confederation Congress, kept by the Avalon Project

Which of these pinned fragments come from the Constitution of the United States? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union"
• "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
• "three fifths of all other Persons"
• "I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors."
• "the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property"

In the ratification debate, who were the Federalists?

Select one.

• The party that Hamilton and Adams led in the 1790s
• The supporters of the proposed Constitution
• The opponents who demanded a bill of rights first
• The delegates who drafted the Articles of Confederation

Founders Online prints the date of The Federalist No. 10 in square brackets: [22 November 1787]. How should a careful reader describe that date?

Select one.

• As the editors' date, supplied by modern editors
• As the date Madison wrote at the top of his essay
• As the date in the Avalon Project's heading for the essay
• As the date the Federal Convention signed the Constitution

Congress proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution in 1789. How many of them did the states ratify as the Bill of Rights?

Select one.

• 12
• 10
• 2
• 9

Put these events in order, earliest first: the Constitution signed, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation take effect, the Bill of Rights ratified.

Select one.

• The Articles take effect, the Declaration, the Constitution signed, the Bill of Rights
• The Declaration, the Constitution signed, the Articles take effect, the Bill of Rights
• The Declaration, the Articles take effect, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution signed
• The Declaration, the Articles take effect, the Constitution signed, the Bill of Rights