Chapter 7 : Flashcards
Why did the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 decide to meet in secret?
To avoid alarming Americans with their plan for restructuring the government
What were the terms of the “hard-money laws” passed by many states after the Revolutionary War to ensure settlement of the war debt?
Debts had to be paid in silver or gold rather than paper currency.
Who suffered directly from the whiskey tax imposed by Federalists in the 1790s?
Corn farmers from the West
In 1794, the first African American church in the United States was founded in
Philadelphia
How did the legacy of Shays’s Rebellion influence attitudes toward the Constitution?
Many former rebels were skeptical of a strong central government and opposed the Constitution.
According to the passage, what did the United Indian Nations Council request from the United States in 1786?
“Brethren of the United States of America: It is now more than three years since peace was made between the King of Great Britain and you, but we, the Indians, were disappointed, finding ourselves not included in that peace, according to our expectations: for we thought that its conclusion would have promoted a friendship between the United States and Indians, and that we might enjoy that happiness that formerly subsisted between us and our elder brethren. . . .”
Relations modeled on prewar agreements with Great Britain
In the early republic, most states required that officeholders be
Protestant
How did the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1785 attempt to resolve Indian land claims?
It did not resolve or address the claims.
What event in Philadelphia in 1793 caused government operations to grind to a halt?
Yellow fever
Prior to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, which group of people met and drafted the Virginia Plan in hopes of creating a powerful central government?
Federalists
The 1790 Indian Trade and Intercourse Act was enacted to
ensure equitable dealings between Indians and whites.
What was Alexander Hamilton’s goal for his economic policy when he served as secretary of the treasury?
To establish the nation’s credit
The Alien Act of 1798 granted the president the right to
imprison or deport noncitizens.
Little Turtle, a war chief of the Miami Nation, created a pan-Indian alliance and attacked federal troops in the Ohio valley in 1790 because the U.S. government
had failed to stop settlers from moving into Indian territory.
What concern did Indians and U.S. political leaders share in the aftermath of the Revolution?
White squatters
The election of 1796 was notable because it was the first
to pit candidates of opposing factions against each other.
How did the federal bank established by Hamilton function in the early years of the new nation?
It successfully served to collect and distribute the nation’s resources.
Who was targeted by the Alien Act passed in 1798 under Adams during the undeclared war with France?
Scots-Irish immigrants
What made the government’s response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 so different from its response to Shays’s Rebellion in 1787?
The federal government used the army to quash the Whiskey Rebellion.
Reduced prices for western land in the 1790s
fueled migration to the frontier for land.
Hamilton originally proposed funding the establishment of a Bank of the United States by
selling stock to private stockholders and the national government.
Who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
White, educated men of property, mainly lawyers, merchants, and planters
The Federalist majority passed the Naturalization Act of 1798, which
increased residency requirement for citizenship from five to fourteen years.
What impact did the French Revolution have on American markets?
The French Revolution caused U.S. profits from trade to increase.
