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Unit I ? Constitutional Underpinnings of the United States Government AP Test Prep Quiz Mrs. Probst The delegates to the Constitutional Convention can best be described as representative of both men and women. a cross section of all crafts, trades and laborers. racially mixed all white male landowners. Most delegates to the Constitutional Convention accepted the idea of balanced government direct democracy majority rule tyranny A plan calling for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature, the lower house to be elected by the voters and the upper chosen by the lower is known as the New Jersey Plan. Virginia Plan. Connecticut Plan. The Constitutional Convention

PRACTICE TEST 2.0 01. The first nationality excluded from immigrating to the United States was the (A) Japanese (B) Mexicans (C) Chinese (D) Haitians (E) Ottoman Turks. 02. The basic viewpoint of the U.S. Supreme court in the 1920's was to (A) Uphold the anti trust laws (B) favor the position of organized labor (C) overturn progressive laws (D) support the government involvement in business (E) refuse to consider cases involving labor disputes. 03. The American Anti-slavery movement split in 1840 largely over the issue of (A) the participation of women (B) gradual vs. immediate emancipation (C) civil rights for free blacks in the North (D) Support for the black abolitionists (E) backing for Martin Van Buren for President.

AP US HISTORY 1.4 01. Which of the following statements is true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? (A) It led to the disintegration of the Democratic party (B) It was a measure that the South had been demanding for decades (C) It led directly to the formation of the Republican Party (D) By applying "Popular sovereignty" to territories formerly closed to slavery by the Missouri Compromise, it succeeded in maintaining the tenuous sectional peace that had been created by the Compromise of 1850 (E) It assured that its sponsor, Senator Stephen A. Douglas, would receive the 1856 Democratic presidential nomination.

Practice Test 1.2 01. The Dred Scott decision held that a slave (A) could sue for his freedom in the courts (B) became free when transported to free territory (C) was private property when even in a free territory (D) was a citizen when in free territory (E) could not be transported when in a slave state. 02. Open-range ranching came to an end due to (A) overproduction of beef and declining prices (B) federal support for irrigated agriculture (C) the range wars between cattlemen and sheepherders (D) fencing the plains with barb wire (E) increase in cattle production in the Midwest and East.