The Constitution and Founding Fathers - Page 6
Questions
- What were the two biggest issues at the Constitutional Convention and the two Compromises to help solve them?
- Which compromise created a bicameral legislature?
- What was Hamilton's opinion of the American people?
- What is the only legal direct tax, which was passed by the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
- What is most characteristic of the "Great Compromise" of the Constitution?
- What are the three requirements for President and VP?
- What was the Great Compromise in the U.S. Constitution?
- What city and in what year was the Constitution written?
- What was the main advantage to the federal government having the sole power of printing and coining money?
- In the Great Compromise, what did small states and large states give up?
- Who was the President of the United States in 1793?
- What was the capital of the United States in 1793?
- Why did southern farmers oppose Hamilton's plans for the economy?
- Who is called the "Father of the Constitution" because of his work at the Constitutional Convention?
- Why doesn't the government get to punish anyone it suspects of a crime in any way it wants? Why does it generally have to prove guilt?
- What was a weakness in the Continental Congress?
- Which Article of the Constitution addresses executive branch of the government?
- Who wanted a strong national government and urged the ratification of the Constitution?
- Which Enlightenment thinkers and ideas are reflected in important U.S. documents like the Declaration of Independence. the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights?
- Why did the Founding Fathers create two houses in the legislative branch?