birth of a nation

Question 1

What type of government is run by the people who live under it?

Answer 1

democracy

Question 2

Approximately how many Loyalists left the United States?

Answer 2

100,000

Question 3

The first state to have suffrage for all men over twenty-one years of age was

Answer 3

Vermont

Question 4

How did states like Pennsylvania and Rhode Island end slavery within their borders?

Answer 4

gradual emancipation acts

Question 5

One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that they provided for:

Answer 5

a unanimous vote of the states to amend the Articles

Question 6

A rebellion of debt-ridden farmers was led by:

Answer 6

Daniel Shays

Question 7

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had no power to:

Answer 7

collect taxes

Question 8

The Articles of Confederation went into effect in:

Answer 8

1781

Question 9

under what law was the states were superior to the national government

Answer 9

Articles of Confederation

Question 10

A serious dispute between the large and small states under the Articles was over the problem of:A serious dispute between the large and small states under the Articles was over the problem of:

Answer 10

representationrepresentation

Question 11

what provided the government of new territories

Answer 11

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 12

benefited eastern speculators at the expense of western farmers

Answer 12

Ordinance of 1785

Question 13

Under the Land Ordinance of 1787, a territory could be admitted to the Union when it had

Answer 13

60,000

Question 14

original intended purpose of the Constitutional Convention

Answer 14

amending the Articles of confederation

Question 15

What issue made Virginia and South Carolina threaten to not support the Constitution?

Answer 15

slavery

Question 16

distribution of power between states and federal government

Answer 16

The framers built the government around a federal system to solve conflict over what issue?

Question 17

Which of the following men were responsible for writing the Federalist Papers?

Answer 17

James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay

Question 18

Why was the system of checks and balances included in the Constitution?

Answer 18

to prevent one branch of the government from becoming too powerful

Question 19

What are the three ways the Constitution can be amended?

Answer 19

amendment ratified by special conventions in three-fourths of the states
amendment proposed by special convention, called for by two-thirds of state legislatures, and ratified by three-fourths of state legislatures
amendment proposed by two-thirds of both houses and ratified by three-fourths of the states