Question 1

Anti-Federalists included:

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry

Question 2

As designed by the Constitution:

Accepted Answer

federal judges were appointed by the president, not elected by the people.

Question 3

During the process of ratifying the Constitution:

Accepted Answer

two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, voted against ratification.

Question 4

Hector St. John Cr&egrave;vecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer:

Accepted Answer

popularized the idea of the United States as a melting pot of ethnicities.

Question 5

How did southern states react to the Constitution's provisions regarding slavery?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina and Georgia imported an increased number of Africans, because in twenty years, the international slave trade would be constitutionally prohibited.

Question 6

In the 1780s, settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky:

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believed they had a right to take possession of western lands and use them as they saw fit.

Question 7

In The Federalist, James Madison argued that:

Accepted Answer

the large size of the United States was a source of political stability.

Question 8

In the immediate aftermath of independence, how did Congress justify its claim that at least some Indians had forfeited their rights to their lands?

Accepted Answer

because they had aided the British during the war

Question 9

James Madison:

Accepted Answer

was Thomas Jefferson's friend and prot&eacute;g&eacute;.

Question 10

Shays's Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated:

Accepted Answer

to some influential Americans the need for a stronger central government.

Question 11

Shays's Rebellion:

Accepted Answer

used the example of the Revolution and the terminology of liberty in organizing.

Question 12

The Anti-Federalist James Winthrop argued that a bill of rights was necessary in the Constitution because:

Accepted Answer

it would secure the minority against the usurpation and tyranny of the majority.

Question 13

The Constitution explicitly granted Congress the power to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

emancipate slaves.

Question 14

The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed:

Accepted Answer

only free white persons to become citizens.

Question 15

The New Jersey Plan:

Accepted Answer

was mainly supported by the smaller, less populated states.

Question 16

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

Accepted Answer

established the policy to admit the area's population as equal members of the political system.

Question 17

The relationship between the national government and the states is called:

Accepted Answer

Federalism.

Question 18

The three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution:

Accepted Answer

gave the white South greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted.

Question 19

Thomas Jefferson believed that African-Americans:

Accepted Answer

should eventually be able to enjoy their natural rights, but they would have to leave the United States to do so.

Question 20

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to:

Accepted Answer

establish national control over land to the west of the thirteen states.

Question 21

Under the Treaty of Greenville of 1795:

Accepted Answer

twelve Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.

Question 22

What qualifications did the Constitution, ratified in 1787, impose for voting?

Accepted Answer

None; it left voting rules to the states.

Question 23

What was Congress able to accomplish with its Native American policy under the Articles of Confederation?

Accepted Answer

Congress demanded and received surrenders of large amounts of Indian land north of the Ohio River and in the South.

Question 24

What was the annuity system involving the U.S. government and certain Indian tribes?

Accepted Answer

a system under which the federal government gave annual monetary grants to Indians

Question 25

Which of the following groups tended to be Anti-Federalist during the ratification debates?

Accepted Answer

state politicians fearful of a strong central government

Question 26

Which one of the following describes those who attended the Constitutional Convention?

Accepted Answer

Most were better educated than the average American of the time

Question 27

Which one of the following did states NOT do during the period when the Articles of Confederation governed the United States?

Accepted Answer

They called out militias to stop foreclosures on the homes of debtors.

Question 28

Which one of the following is true of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the Appalachians in the 1780s?

Accepted Answer

They shared their British predecessors' fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans

Question 29

Which one of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?

Accepted Answer

It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house.

Question 30

Which one of the following is NOT a check against presidential power in the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

The House can remove the president from office after impeaching him.

Question 31

Which one of the following is true of the Constitution of 1787 and of slavery?

Accepted Answer

Although never using the word slavery, the document protected several aspects of the institution.

Question 32

Which one of the following is true regarding Congress and the African slave trade in the United States under the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

Congress prohibited the African slave trade twenty years after ratification of the Constitution.

Question 33

Which one of the following is true of how the U.S. government in the 1790s dealt with Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. government made treaties with them mainly to transfer land to itself or to the states.

Question 34

Which one of the following persons would have been the most likely supporter of the Articles of Confederation?

Accepted Answer

an indebted farmer in western Massachusetts

Question 35

Which one of the following was a characteristic of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation?

Accepted Answer

Congress could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.

Question 36

Which two prominent men were not at the Constitutional Convention?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Question 37

Who was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794?

Accepted Answer

Little Turtle

Question 38

Who wrote Notes on the State of Virginia?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 39

Why did the founding fathers create the electoral college?

Accepted Answer

They did not trust ordinary voters to choose the president and vice president directly.

Question 40

Why was the original House of Representatives so small, with only sixty-five members?

Accepted Answer

The founders assumed that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts, and that is what the founders wanted.

Question 41

With regard to slavery, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

Accepted Answer

banned slavery in the area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River.

Question 42

So adamant was he about separating church and state, James Madison opposed the appointment of chaplains to serve Congress and the military. T/F

Accepted Answer

True

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