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Virginia and US History SOL Module 2 Constitution and early republic overview quiz quiz

18questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What was the central weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation?

  2. How did Shays' Rebellion (1786 to 1787) affect support for a stronger national government?

  3. Which two Virginians played central roles at the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

  4. What did the Great Compromise settle at the Convention?

  5. A diagram shows the president vetoing a bill and Congress overriding the veto. This illustrates which principle?

  6. Which principle divides power between the national government and the states?

  7. Which Virginia document, written by George Mason, helped shape the United States Bill of Rights?

  8. Whose Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) became a model for the First Amendment?

  9. Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?

  10. Which of these was a precedent set by George Washington as the first president?

  11. What principle did Marbury v. Madison (1803) establish?

  12. What did McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) establish about federal power?

  13. Why was the Louisiana Purchase (1803) significant?

  14. How did democracy change during the Jacksonian era?

  15. What was the Indian Removal Act (1830) and its result?

  16. What was Manifest Destiny?

  17. Why did westward expansion intensify the conflict over slavery?

  18. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is best known as the beginning of the organized: