The plan presented at the Constitutional Convention generally favored by large states was
A) the Virginia Plan.
B) the Annapolis Compromise.
C) the Three-fifths Compromise.
D) the New Jersey Plan.
E) the Connecticut Compromise.
In 1787, a Boston newspaper derisively referred to Rogue Island instead of Rhode island because
A) Rhode Island was a loyalist colony.
B) Rhode Island supported the rebels in the Civil War.
C) Rhode Island was the only state that did not send delegates to the meeting in Philadelphia.
D) Rhode Island passed the country's first sales tax in 1787.
E) Rhode Island refused to be the location of the Constitutional Convention.
Originally, the Constitutional Convention's purpose was to
A) adopt a new constitution.
B) file a formal tax protest with England.
C) raise money for a national army in order to stop Shay's Rebellion.
D) revise the Articles of Confederation.
E) overturn articles amended by the Second Continental Congress.
The main positive result of the Annapolis Convention was
A) finally paying debts owed to Revolutionary War veterans.
B) revision of commercial arrangements among the states.
C) ending state-level export/import restrictions and tariffs.
D) a call for a larger meeting of the states, with a broader mission.
E) amendments to the Articles of Confederation.
Shays's Rebellion was ultimately defeated by
A) a group of citizens who self-organized to combat the threat from the rebels.
B) the U.S. military, called into action by the Confederation Congress.
C) the Massachusetts militia.
D) the weather, when rebels were not prepared for the winter.
E) a mercenary force recruited by the central government, because American soldiers would not fire on other Americans.
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