History Ch. 7

How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution in regards to sovereignty?

How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution with regards to the economy?

Under the Articles of Confederation, what would be considered an accomplishment of the national government?

Which state would have been pleased by both the New Jersey Plan and the three-fifths clause?

By banning the importation of slaves with the Constitution by 1808, what did critics of slavery hope to accomplish?

What did James Madison aim to accomplish with the protections of both public and private liberties?

What helped to encourage a ratification of the Constitution?

Which of the following scenarios can potentially be seen as a violation of the First Amendment?

How would slave owners in the late eighteenth century have explained a slave's repeated stealing and drinking of alcohol?

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to:

Which two prominent men were not at the Constitutional Convention?

What proposal by Alexander Hamilton found little support in the Constitutional Convention?

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

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

Under the Treaty of Greenville of 1795:

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

Anti-Federalists included:

Which right was heavily influenced by the American Revolutionary period?

What was "the first object of government," according to James Madison?

Which of the following is true of American national identity as envisioned by the Constitution of 1787?

What caused David Ramsay to praise the power of amending the constitution so profusely in his History of the American Revolution from 1789?

In The History of the American Revolution, David Ramsay:

David Ramsay's History of the American Revolution from 1789 argues that representative government can prevent which of the problems that plagued ancient democracies in the past?

Which of the following of David Ramsay's claims in his History of the American Revolution from 1789 is most doubted?

How did David Ramsay's History of the American Revolution from 1789 characterize the freedoms of modern European governments?

Envisioning the nation as a community open to all those devoted to its political institutions and social values is what?

According to James Winthrop's Anti-Federalist Essay from 1787, what was the consensus of educated men at the time on the issue of republican principles?

In his Anti-Federalist Essay from 1787, James Winthrop uses Spain as an example for:

According to James Winthrop's Anti-Federalist Essay from 1787, the most central feature of the new United States was:

In his Anti-Federalist Essay from 1787, James Winthrop defended the Bill of Rights as a restriction of the powers of:

What evidence does Eric Foner provide for the claim that the Articles of Confederation served more as a mutual defense agreement than as a shared constitution?

How did the farmers' plight in western Massachusetts in the fall and winter of 1786-1787 change the way James Madison thought about liberty?

Why does Eric Foner argue that the compromises over slavery during Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 served to further embed the institution into American life and politics?

On what grounds does Eric Foner claim that James Madison's writings in defense of the new Constitution ended up endorsing continuous westward expansion?

Which of the following would have been most likely to oppose the new Constitution in 1787?

Which of the following would have had the least chance at a successful legal claim under the U.S. Constitution?

Which of the following demonstrates that white Americans in the late eighteenth century wanted the United States to be a "white man's country"?