Chapter 09 Quiz

Question 1

How did patriots fight the war?

Answer 1

With a high degree of disunity and concurred on allegiance to a common cause

Question 2

What began flooding the American market?

Answer 2

Excess low priced goods by British manufacturers

Question 3

What did the Philadelphia newspaper urge readers to do?

Answer 3

To do home-stitched garments of homespun cloth

Question 4

How were the thirteen states?

Answer 4

The thirteen states were alike in governmental structure and functioned under similar constitutions

Question 5

The continental congress called for what?

Answer 5

To draft new constitutions and summon themselves into new states

Question 6

How did Massachusetts draft their own constitution well?

Answer 6

They called a convention to draft it and submit the final draft to the people for confirmation

Question 7

What happened to the Massachusetts constitution later on?

Answer 7

It was used a model when drafting and ratifying for the federal constitution

Question 8

How did Americans draft consitutions?

Answer 8

They were contracts that defined the powers of government and drew their authority from the people

Question 9

What type of law were the state constitutions represented as?

Answer 9

A law superior to the the temporary whims of legislation

Question 10

What did state constitutions include?

Answer 10

bills of rights, long prized liberties, annual election of legislators

Question 11

Why were the state constitutions weak?

Answer 11

Created weak executive and judicial branches by present-day standards

Question 12

What did Thomas Jefferson warn everyone?

Answer 12

That 173 despots would be oppressive as one

Question 13

Who represented the new state legislatures?

Answer 13

Many from the enfranchised poorer western districts

Question 14

What state capitals were successfully relocated from eastern seaports to the interior?

Answer 14

New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia moved westward

Question 15

What happened to the former crown lands?

Answer 15

Many of the large loyalist holdings were confiscated and were cut up into small farms

Question 16

What happened to goods imported from Britain?

Answer 16

Most were cut off and the ingenious yankees had to make their own

Question 17

What happened to the coveted commerce?

Answer 17

Reserved for the loyal parts of the empire

Question 18

How did America compensate for the loss of previous commercial ports?

Answer 18

They were now able to trade with foreign nations

Question 19

How did runaway inflation occur?

Answer 19

State governments borrowed more than they could repay

Question 20

The second continental congress of revolutionary days was and how many states?

Answer 20

A conference of ambassadors from thirteen states

Question 21

What did the thirteen states do?

Answer 21

coined money, raised armies, and created tariff barriers

Question 22

What did the legislature of Virginia do?

Answer 22

Ratified separately the treaty of alliance of 1778 of France

Question 23

What was the name of the constitution that was drafted a year before it was adopted by Congress?

Answer 23

Articles of Confederation

Question 24

Why was the Articles of Confederation drafted?

Answer 24

To convince the French that America had a genuine government after the Battle of Saratoga

Question 25

What major complaint was made for land-rich states?

Answer 25

Sell their trans-allegheny tracts and pay off pensions and other debts

Question 26

What would states have to do with no holdings?

Answer 26

Tax themselves

Question 27

Who held out the approval of the articles of confederation?

Answer 27

Maryland

Question 28

What was the Articles of confederation also called?

Answer 28

Articles of confusion which lead to a confederation

Question 29

Thirteen states came together to do what?

Answer 29

To deal with common problems such as foreign affairs

Question 30

All bills dealing with subject importance required the support of what?

Answer 30

The nine states or agreement of all

Question 31

Why was the congress weak?

Answer 31

There was no power to regulate commerce and lead to establishing different laws of tariffs and navigation

Question 32

Was the new congress less effective or more effective than the old continental congress that held no constitutional powers at all?

Answer 32

Less effective

Question 33

Why was the low Articles of Confederation a step towards the present constitution?

Answer 33

Outlined the general powers by government that lined treaties and a postal service

Question 34

What did the Articles keep alive?

Answer 34

Unity between the states

Question 35

How far is the Old Northeast extended?

Answer 35

Northeast of the Ohio river, east of the mississippi river, and south of the Great Lakes

Question 36

What was the first of the red-letter laws and what did it provide?

Answer 36

Land Ordinance of 1785, provided land of the old Northwest to be sold to pay off national debt

Question 37

Two things the Land of Ordinance has are

Answer 37

Temporary protection and permanent equality

Question 38

What are the two evolutionary territorial stages?

Answer 38

A subordinate to the federal government and then gain 60,000 people to be a state

Question 39

The Ordinance forbade what?

Answer 39

Slavery, but slaves didn't affect them

Question 40

What did Britain decline?

Answer 40

To make a commercial treaty or to repeal its ancient Navigation Laws

Question 41

Who persuasively argued in a pamphlet that Britain would win American trade back?

Answer 41

Lord Sheffield

Question 42

Why did Britain hanged on to trading in America illegally?

Answer 42

To maintain fur trade with the natives as a barrier against future American attacks on Canada

Question 43

How did Congress react towards Americans urging them to do something about the smuggling of Britain

Answer 43

Nothing, but some states lowered their tariffs to attract an unfair share of trade

Question 44

Spain and Britain prevented America from what?

Answer 44

From controlling over half of the territory

Question 45

What did the French demand from America?

Answer 45

The repayment of money loaned during the war and restricted trade with west Indies and other ports

Question 46

What was happening to the requisition system of raising money?

Answer 46

It was breaking down and some states refused to pay anything

Question 47

What was Shay's Rebellion?

Answer 47

In Massachusetts, poor farmers were losing their farms through mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies

Question 48

Who led Shay's Rebellion?

Answer 48

Daniel Shays

Question 49

What did these poor farmers demand?

Answer 49

To issue paper money, lighten taxes, and suspend property takeovers

Question 50

How did Massachusetts respond to the rebellion?

Answer 50

Rich people raised an army to kill three shaysites and one wounded for the movement to collapse

Question 51

What happened to Daniel Shays?

Answer 51

He was condemned to death, but was later pardoned

Question 52

How did people react to Massachusetts legislation passing debtor-relief laws?

Answer 52

People began to suspect that the revolution had created a monster of "mobocracy"

Question 53

What differences arose on how to make the central government stronger?

Answer 53

On how to make the government stronger and the maximum degree of states's rights could be reconciled

Question 54

Where was convention held to discuss about control of commerce?

Answer 54

Virginia took the lead of the convention at Annapolis, Maryland

Question 55

How many out of nine states delegates showed up to the Annapolis, Maryland convention?

Answer 55

Five

Question 56

What was happening in congress in New York?

Answer 56

It was slowly dying and was reluctant to take a step

Question 57

How many people from # states were summoned to Philadelphia?

Answer 57

fifty-five from twelve states

Question 58

What did delegates consist of?

Answer 58

lawyers, merchants, shippers, land speculators, and moneylenders

Question 59

What did the delegates hope to do?

Answer 59

To form revolutionary idealism into a stable political structure

Question 60

What did the piratical dey of algiers aimed for?

Answer 60

To give authority power, especially with tariffs for the U.S to have treaties from foreign nations

Question 61

What was the Virginia plan also known as the large-state plan?

Answer 61

Representation in both houses of bicameral congress should be based on population

Question 62

What was the New Jersey plan also known as the small-state plan?

Answer 62

Equal representation in a unicameral congress by states, regardless of size and population

Question 63

What was the Great Compromise?

Answer 63

The larger states had rep by pop in House of Rep, smaller states had equal rep in Senate, 2 senators, tax bill and revenue must originate in the house where pop counted more heavily

Question 64

What was the common law?

Answer 64

To be specific about every detail

Question 65

What was the civil law?

Answer 65

Legal codes that were long

Question 66

How was the constitution drafted?

Answer 66

A bundle of compromises that stand out every section

Question 67

What was the three-fifths compromise?

Answer 67

A slave counts as three fifths of a person

Question 68

Which state forbade overseas slave trade?

Answer 68

Georgia

Question 69

What was the result of the heated clashes between the delegates?

Answer 69

The area of agreement was larger

Question 70

The federal judges was to be appointed for

Answer 70

life

Question 71

The president was to be elected by

Answer 71

Electoral college

Question 72

The lordly senators were to be chosen indirectly by

Answer 72

state legislatures

Question 73

What were the two principles of republicanism?

Answer 73

The government to be based on the consent of the governed and the powers of the government should be limited

Question 74

How did the members feel about the end result?

Answer 74

None were completely happy

Question 75

What was in effect of the appeal?

Answer 75

The heads of the congress and the heads of the legislatures had chosen their members

Question 76

Who are the anti-federalists?

Answer 76

Opposed the stronger federal government

Question 77

Who are the federalists?

Answer 77

Favored the stronger government

Question 78

Who were the leaders of the anti-federalists?

Answer 78

Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry Lee

Question 79

Who consisted in the anti-federalists?

Answer 79

states' rights devotees, back country dwellers, and one horse-farmers the poorest classes

Question 80

Who consisted in the federalists?

Answer 80

People who lived along the seaboard, wealthier, more educated, and better organized

Question 81

Who were the leaders of the federalists?

Answer 81

George Washington and Benjamin Franklin

Question 82

How many states quickly accepted the constitution?

Answer 82

Four

Question 83

Who was the majority at first during the ratifying of the convention in Boston?

Answer 83

Anti-federalist

Question 84

Which was one of the last states to secure ratification?

Answer 84

New Hampshire

Question 85

Which states didn't take shelter under the "new federal roof"?

Answer 85

Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island

Question 86

Which proud state was the biggest, most populous and provided a fierce anti federalist opposition?

Answer 86

Virginia

Question 87

Which side was John Marshall on?

Answer 87

Federalist side

Question 88

Who joined John Jay and James Madison in penning a masterly series of articles for the New York newspapers?

Answer 88

Alexander Hamilton

Question 89

What was the name of the commentary essays on the constitution?

Answer 89

The Federalist

Question 90

How was the race of the ratification?

Answer 90

Was close and quite bitter in localities

Question 91

The minority of American radicals had?

Answer 91

Engineered the military revolution the cast off the unwritten British constitution

Question 92

Who was victorious and what did they gain?

Answer 92

Conservatism, safeguards had been erected against mob-rule excesses

Question 93

What was the Society of the Cincinnati?

Answer 93

Continental army officers who formed an exclusive hereditary order

Question 94

Did some states continue to legally establish the church?

Answer 94

Yes, some

Question 95

Which church associated with the British crown was reformed as the Protestant Episcopal church?

Answer 95

Anglican Church

Question 96

Who prolonged Virginia for Religious freedom?

Answer 96

Was prolonged by Thomas Jefferson and his co-reformers won a complete victory

Question 97

Domestic trade in slaves

Answer 97

continued and grew

Question 98

What was civic virtue?

Answer 98

The notion that democracy depended on the unselfish commitment of each citizen to the public good