dcush chapter 6-7

(Q033) What area did England continue to control in the Americas after the American Revolution?

Canada

(Q049) Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.

False

(Q061) By 1790, there were no slaves in New England.

False

(Q031) Independence created governments democratically accountable to voters who coveted

Indian land.

(Q011) Which state was eventually created from the region delimited by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

Indiana

(Q018) Why did the founding fathers create the initial House of Representatives with a relatively small number of members?

It was thought that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts.

(Q011) Who developed the state constitution that gave the governor an effective veto over laws passed by the legislature, included a two-chamber legislature and powerful judiciary, and was subsequently an important model for the U.S. Constitution?

John Adams

(Q036) What territory did the United States acquire from France in 1803?

Louisiana

(Q039) Indentured servitude went into rapid decline following national independence.

True

(Q023) What was one outcome of France's military assistance to the United States during the American Revolutionary War?

inclusion of Catholics in the nation after the war

(Q029) Jefferson's idea of the "empire of liberty" involved

the United States admitting the area's population as equal members of the political system.

(Q012) The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited

slavery

(Q041) Adam Smith's work, The Wealth of Nations, argued that the "invisible hand" of the free market did not direct economic life more effectively and fairly than governmental intervention.

true

(Q020) In 1776, the slave population of the United States was

20 percent

(Q017) What percentage of non-slave Americans remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution?

20 to 25 percent

(Q047) Because of religious freedom, an astonishing number of new religious denominations proliferated in the early republic; today, more than 1,300 religions are practiced in the United States.

True

(Q048) More than half of the fifty-five men at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had attended college.

True

(Q048) On the eve of independence, Baptists who refused to pay taxes to support local Congregational ministers were still being jailed in Massachusetts.

True

(Q055) From 1776 to 1807, property-owning women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.

True

(Q059) During the Revolution, American Indians were divided in allegiance.

True

(Q043) The Revolutionary War strengthened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.

False

(Q014) For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant

equal opportunity rather than equality of condition.

(Q063) James Otis argued that black colonists were entitled to the same civil rights as any British subject.

True

(Q033) What state had the largest slave population in 1790?

Virginia

(Q022) Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

a published poet and slave of African origins.

(Q009) Which of the following was an attribute of the new nation?

broad distribution of property ownership

(Q064) After the Revolutionary War, there was little distinction among which tribes had sided with the enemy, those that had aided the patriots, and those that had played no part in the war at all.

true

(Q065) The Constitution embodies three basic political principles: federalism, anti-federalism, and the system of checks and balances.

true

(Q045) The Bill of Rights offered Indians a vital source of protection against further intrusions upon their land.

false

(Q059) The founding fathers meant "We the People" to refer to all Americans.

false

(Q042) The years following independence saw the emergence of free black communities.

true

(Q034) By the early nineteenth century, dictionaries of Indian languages began to include the word

freedom

(Q028) This founding father sought to recapture his slave, twenty-year-old Ona Judge, while serving as President of the United States.

george washignton

(Q024) The first time in recorded human history that slavery was eradicated by legislative power of government was

in the United States during and after the American Revolution.

(Q046) The 1790 Naturalization Act barred non-white foreigners from attaining American citizenship.

true

(Q051) Only thirty-nine of the original fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document.

true

(Q058) As originally written, the Constitution acknowledged and tacitly supported the institution of slavery.

true

(Q060) By the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had already become larger than Great Britain, Spain, and France combined.

true

(Q062) After the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, twelve Native American communities ceded most of their land from Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.

true