Chapter 7

Question 1

Which right was heavily influenced by the American Revolutionary period?

Answer 1

Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment

Question 2

Shay’s Rebellion:

Answer 2

Drew on the terminology of revolution and liberty

Question 3

Anti-Federalists included:

Answer 3

Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry

Question 4

How did southern states react to the Constitution’s provisions regarding slavery?

Answer 4

South Carolina and Georgia immediately began importing increased numbers of Africans, because in twenty years, the international slave trade could be constitutionally prohibited

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a check against presidential power in the Constitution?

Answer 5

The House can remove the president from office after impeaching him

Question 6

Which of the following is true of the Constitution of 1787 and slavery?

Answer 6

Although never using the word “slavery,” the document protected several aspects of the institution

Question 7

As designed by the Constitution

Answer 7

Federal judges were appointed by the president, not elected by the people

Question 8

During the process of ratifying the Constitution:

Answer 8

Two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, voted against ratification

Question 9

Which of the following groups tended to be Anti-Federalist during the ratification debates?

Answer 9

State politicians fearful of a strong central government

Question 10

Who wrote the preamble and put the final written touches on the Constitution?

Answer 10

Gouverneur Morris

Question 11

What qualifications did the Constitution, ratified in 1787, impose for voting?

Answer 11

None; it left voting rules to the states

Question 12

Under the Treaty of Greenville of 1795:

Answer 12

Twelve Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio and Indiana to the federal government

Question 13

Hector St. John Crevecoeur’s letters from an American Farmer:

Answer 13

Popularized the idea of the United States as a melting pot of ethnicities

Question 14

Which of the following people would have been the most likely supporter of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 14

An indebted farmer in western Massachusetts

Question 15

The Somerset case:

Answer 15

Ruled that slavery was unlawful in England

Question 16

Under the Articles of Confederation, the states did what with regard to economics?

Answer 16

They created a variety of economic policies

Question 17

Why was the original House of Representatives so small, with only 65 members?

Answer 17

The founders assumed that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts, and that is what the founders wanted

Question 18

The three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution:

Answer 18

Gave the white South greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted

Question 19

Who was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794?

Answer 19

Little Turtle

Question 20

James Madison

Answer 20

Was Thomas Jefferson’s ally and disciple

Question 21

The Anti-Federalist James Winthrop argued that a bill of rights was necessary in the Constitution because:

Answer 21

It would secure the minority against the usurpation and tyranny of the majority

Question 22

Which of the following did states NOT do during the period when the Articles of Confederation governed the United States?

Answer 22

They called out militias to stop foreclosures on the homes of debtors

Question 23

Which of the following is true of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the Appalachians in the 1780s?

Answer 23

They shared their British predecessors’ fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans

Question 24

What was “the first object of government,” according to James Madison?

Answer 24

Protect property rights

Question 25

Which of the following is true of how the U.S. government in the 1790s dealt with Native Americans?

Answer 25

The U.S. government made treaties with them mainly to transfer land to itself or to the states

Question 26

All of the following statements are true of the Bill of Rights EXCEPT:

Answer 26

It explicitly granted states the right of secession

Question 27

What was Congress able to accomplish with its Native American policy under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 27

Congress demanded and received surrenders of large amounts of Indian land north of the Ohio River and in the South

Question 28

Which of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?

Answer 28

It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house

Question 29

Which two prominent men were not at the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 29

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Question 30

Envisioning the nation as a community open to all those devoted to its political institutions and social values is what?

Answer 30

Civic nationalism

Question 31

By the 1790s, the phrase “we the people” had come to mean what?

Answer 31

Rights were increasing for white Americans

Question 32

Who wrote Notes on the State of Virginia?

Answer 32

Thomas Jefferson

Question 33

The New Jersey Plan:

Answer 33

Was mainly supported by the smaller, less populated areas

Question 34

What was the annuity system involving the U.S. government and certain Indian tribes?

Answer 34

A system under which the federal government gave annual monetary grants to Indians

Question 35

Who wrote the majority of the eighty-five essays in The Federalist?

Answer 35

Alexander Hamilton

Question 36

Shays’s Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated:

Answer 36

The need for a stronger central government

Question 37

Which of the following is true of American national identity as envisioned by the Constitution of 1787?

Answer 37

The “people” were free Americans; Native Americans and “other persons,” meaning African-American slaves, were not considered part of the political nation

Question 38

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to:

Answer 38

Establish national control over land to the west of the thirteen states

Question 39

The Constitution explicitly granted Congress the power to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer 39

Emancipate slaves

Question 40

The relationship between the national government and the states is called?

Answer 40

Federalism

Question 41

During the early years of the republic, African-Americans:

Answer 41

Made up about 20 percent of the total population

Question 42

The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed:

Answer 42

Only free white persons to become citizens

Question 43

In the 1780s, settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky:

Answer 43

Believed they had a right to take possession of western lands and use them as they saw fit

Question 44

Which of the following is true regarding Congress and the African slave trade in the U.S. under the Constitution?

Answer 44

Congress prohibited the African slave trade twenty years after ratification of the Constitution

Question 45

In The History of the American Revolution, David Ramsay:

Answer 45

Praised American state constitutions for allowed future amendments

Question 46

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

Answer 46

Established the policy to admit the area’s population as equal members of the political system

Question 47

What proposal by Alexander Hamilton found little support in the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 47

Life terms for president and senators

Question 48

With regard to slavery, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

Answer 48

Banned slavery in the area north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River

Question 49

Why did the founding fathers create the electoral college?

Answer 49

They did not trust ordinary voters to choose the president and vice president directly

Question 50

The eighty-five essays written in support of ratification of the Constitution are called:

Answer 50

The Federalist

Question 51

Which of the following does NOT describe those who attended the Constitutional Convention?

Answer 51

Most had earned their wealth after rising from humble origins

Question 52

Thomas Jefferson believed that African-Americans:

Answer 52

Should eventually be able to enjoy their natural rights, but they would have to leave the United States to do so

Question 53

Why did Congress claim that some Indians had forfeited their land rights in the aftermath of Independence?

Answer 53

Because they had aided the British during the war

Question 54

In The Federalist, James Madison argued that:

Answer 54

The large size of the U.S. was a source of political stability

Question 55

Which of the following was a characteristic of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 55

Congress could not levy taxes or regulate commerce