1. How Many States Had to Be in Favor of New Laws Under the Articles?

Chapter 3 Worksheet

Section 1

1. How many states had to be in favor of new laws under the Articles?

2. What does bicameral mean?

3. What event led to 12 states sending delegates to Philadelphia to revise the Articles of

Confederation?

4. What peace agreement ended the Revolutionary War? What year was it signed?

5. What set up the system of land surveying and settlement still in use today?

6. What type of vote was needed to amend the Articles?

7. What was the first colony to organize into a state?

8. What was the first government of the United States called?

9. What were two powers the states refused to give the Confederation government?

Section 2

10. According to the Virginia Plan, how would representation in each house be

determined?

11. Because of the secrecy pledge, where do the details of the convention come from?

12. How did the delegates decide that the President should be chosen?

13. How many delegates arrived in Philadelphia?

14. How many states had to ratify the new Constitution before it would go into effect?

15. How was representation decided in the New Jersey Plan?

16. What compromise presented by Roger Sherman settled the dispute between the

Virginia and New Jersey Plans?

17. What delegate presented the New Jersey Plan?

18. What delegate proposed the Virginia Plan?

19. What group opposed the new Constitution?

20. What group supported the new Constitution?

21. What promise by the Federalists led to the ratification of the Constitution?

22. What state refused to send delegates to Philadelphia to revise the Articles of

Confederation?

23. What was decided by the Three-Fifths Compromise?

24. What was the meeting in Philadelphia eventually called?

25. Who was chosen to preside over the convention?

26. Who wrote the Federalist Papers?

Section 3

27. How many amendments are included in the Constitution?

28. What are the three main parts of the Constitution?

29. What are the two steps in the amending process?

30. What article contains the statement “Supreme law of the land”?

31. What article discusses the Judicial Branch?

32. What article provides for an executive branch?

33. What do we call a change to the Constitution?

34. What is outlined in Article I?

35. What is the main purpose of the Constitution?

36. What powers come from the necessary and proper clause?

Section 4

37. What allows one branch to limit the powers of another?

38. What are the five fundamental principles of government found in the Constitution?

39. What are the three types of powers developed by the Constitution?

40. What division is called for by separation of powers?

41. What is meant by the principle of limited government?

42. What is popular sovereignty?

43. What is the rule of law?

44. What term is defined as sharing power between national and state governments?