2 Week T/F

Question 1

The income tax represented the single most important source of government revenue for the British regime prior to the American Revolution.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

During the 1750s, the British Crown’s North American colonies on the whole paid remarkably little in taxes to the mother country.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were defended by future president John Adams.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Radicals seeking independence were primarily disgruntled members of the colonial merchant elite.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Collective action among colonists was sparked by the British government’s harsh response to the Boston Tea Party.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The First Continental Congress called for a total boycott of British goods.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government was based entirely in Congress.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

Under the Articles of Confederation, each state was represented in the Continental Congress in proportion to its population.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was given power to declare war and make peace.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Under the Articles of Confederation, the nation’s armed forces were financed by federal income taxes.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Delegates from all 13 colonies attended the Annapolis Convention.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Shays’s Rebellion was forcefully ended by the quick and decisive actions by federal troops sent by Congress under the Confederation.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

The Constitutional Convention passed the New Jersey Plan with little compromise.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court serve staggered six-year terms.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

In the United States, no set of institutional procedures is more important than the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 20

False (the constitution)

Question 21

Under the Constitution as originally passed, the members of the Senate were to be appointed by the state legislatures.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Staggered terms of service in the Senate were intended to make that body even more politically responsive to popular opinion.

Answer 22

False

Question 23

The Constitution implies that any power not explicitly granted to the federal government is not granted at all.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

In the absence of an amendment, any power not specifically enumerated in the Constitution is conceived to be reserved to the national government.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

The Constitution grants the president the unconditional power to accept ambassadors from other countries.

Answer 25

True