CHAPTER 7 Flashcards
Which of the following was a characteristic of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation?
Congress could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.
How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution in regard to sovereignty?
Under the Articles, states had more autonomy, while the Constitution gave some powers to the states.
How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution with regard to the economy?
Under the Articles, states made more decisions about the economy than the national government.
Which of the following is true of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the Appalachians in the 1780s?
They shared their British predecessors’ fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans.
Shays’s Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated:
the need for a stronger central government.
How did Thomas Jefferson react to Shays’s Rebellion?
He was not alarmed, seeing it as a positive for the United States.
Which of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?
It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house.
The New Jersey Plan:
was mainly supported by the smaller, less populated states.
The relationship between the national government and the states is called:
Federalism.
Which of the following is true of the Constitution of 1787 and slavery?
Although never using the word “slavery,” the document protected several aspects of the institution.
Which of the following is true regarding Congress and the African slave trade in the United States under the Constitution?
Congress prohibited the African slave trade twenty years after ratification of the Constitution.
In regard to slavery, what did the Constitution do?
It allowed slavery but also contained a potential method to end slavery.
The three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution:
gave the white South greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted.
The eighty-five essays written in support of ratification of the Constitution are called:
The Federalist.
What was “the first object of government,” according to James Madison?
Protect property rights.
What did James Madison see as a strength of the new Constitution?
He wrote that the large geographical size of the country would secure rights.
What was an enduring legacy of the Anti-Federalists?
The fear that a strong central government would trample on liberties.
Which of the following scenarios can potentially be seen as a violation of the First Amendment?
A woman is arrested for organizing a peaceful meeting to protest the federal government’s actions.
The Anti-Federalist James Winthrop argued that a bill of rights was necessary in the Constitution because:
it would secure the minority against the usurpation and tyranny of the majority.
Envisioning the nation as a community open to all those devoted to its political institutions and social values is what?
Civic nationalism.
