2 Week T/F Flashcards
The income tax represented the single most important source of government revenue for the British regime prior to the American Revolution.
False
During the lead-up to the American Revolution, the New England merchants who cried “no taxation without representation” cared more about expanded representation in the British Parliament than about lower taxes.
False
During the 1750s, the British Crown’s North American colonies on the whole paid remarkably little in taxes to the mother country.
True
The British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were defended by future president John Adams.
True
Radicals seeking independence were primarily disgruntled members of the colonial merchant elite.
False
Collective action among colonists was sparked by the British government’s harsh response to the Boston Tea Party.
True
The First Continental Congress called for a total boycott of British goods.
True
Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government was based entirely in Congress.
True
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state was represented in the Continental Congress in proportion to its population.
False
Under the Articles of Confederation, the presiding officer of the executive branch was appointed through a nomination and voting process of the assembled delegates in the Electoral College.
False
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was given power to declare war and make peace.
True
Under the Articles of Confederation, the nation’s armed forces were financed by federal income taxes.
False
The principal advantage of the Articles of Confederation was that the central government could prevent one state from discriminating against other states in the quest for foreign commerce.
False
Delegates from all 13 colonies attended the Annapolis Convention.
False
Shays’s Rebellion was forcefully ended by the quick and decisive actions by federal troops sent by Congress under the Confederation.
False
The Constitutional Convention passed the New Jersey Plan with little compromise.
False
Delegates from large states, such as Pennsylvania, were able to manipulate the procedures at the Constitutional Convention in order to achieve final adoption of the Virginia Plan with negligible amendment.
False
The Three-Fifths Compromise established the principle, new in republican theory, that a man who lives among slaves had a greater share in the election of representatives than the man who did not.
True
Members of the U.S. Supreme Court serve staggered six-year terms.
False
In the United States, no set of institutional procedures is more important than the Declaration of Independence.
False (the constitution)
Under the Constitution as originally passed, the members of the Senate were to be appointed by the state legislatures.
True
Staggered terms of service in the Senate were intended to make that body even more politically responsive to popular opinion.
False
The Constitution implies that any power not explicitly granted to the federal government is not granted at all.
False
In the absence of an amendment, any power not specifically enumerated in the Constitution is conceived to be reserved to the national government.
False
The Constitution grants the president the unconditional power to accept ambassadors from other countries.
True
