3.7 Interactive Knowledge Check: The Road to the Convention

1. The Founders were students of this European intellectual movement, which began in the 1600s and celebrated the ideas of reason

2. During which year did the Constitutional Convention occur in Philadelphia?

3. Between the Declaration of Independence and the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, Americans were governed by ____________ at the national level and __________ at the state level.

4. With the U.S. Constitution, the Founding generation sought to establish a new national government that could ____________

5. Which of these was a problem that existed under the Articles of Confederation?

6. What was required to pass an amendment to the Articles of Confederation?

7. Why did the founders create a weak central government under the Articles of Confederation?

8. Which of these was not true about the Pennsylvania state constitution?

9. What was Shays’ Rebellion?

10. According to Washington’s letter to Henry Knox, if the government in Massachusetts was unable to enforce its laws, what would happen?

11. What was true of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to James Madison in 1787?

12. There was a failed attempt at a Constitutional Convention in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1786. Which of these factors do you think was a reason why the convention didn’t work?

13. Which of these is an accurate representation of the Articles of Confederation?

14. Which founder spent the summer before the Constitutional Convention reading books on past governments and preparing a blueprint to present at the Constitutional Convention?

15. What was James Madison’s definition of a faction?

16. James Madison wrote about his fears of mobs and factions in this literary work

17. The goals of the founders at the Constitutional Convention could be best described by which three ideals?

18. James Madison believed that America’s vast geography and large population ____________

19. What was the stated purpose of the Constitutional Convention, agreed to on February 21, 1787?

20. Which of these founders was not an author of the Federalist Papers?