Dual Credit History - Chapter 7

Alexander Hamilton was an Anti-Federalist.

False

Alexander Hamilton was one of the few political framers from the former colony of Georgia.

False

By 1790, there were no slaves in New England.

False

Federal judges are nominated by the president and approved by the House of Representatives.

False

In an effort to compromise slavery clauses in the Constitution, the institution of slavery weakened in America.

False

Movement of Americans westward slowed dramatically under the Articles of Confederation.

False

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

False

The Constitution embodies three basic political principles: Federalism, Anti-Federalism, and the system of checks and balances.

False

The Constitution imposed high property qualifications for voting.

False

The father of the Constitution was Thomas Jefferson.

False

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

False

Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of The Federalist Papers.

False

This president brought his slave, Hercules, with him to Philadelphia as his cook, despite Pennsylvania's emancipation laws, which freed slaves who resided in the state for six months.

George Washington

One of the leading Federalist thinkers was

James Madison.

The "father of the Constitution" was

James Madison.

Which state was not eventually created from the region delimited by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

Kentucky

Which two states voted against ratification of the Constitution?

Rhode Island and North Carolina

The eighty-five essays published by "Publius" and gathered into a book in 1788 was entitled

The Federalist.

Which is not true of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

They assert that presidents are to make declarations of war.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to

declare war.

Under the rule of the U.S. Constitution, which remains in the hands of the states?

education

Which of the following was not a key principle embedded in the Bill of Rights?

free public education

The costliest loss of human life suffered by the U.S. Army in warfare against American Indians in American history, with 630 dead, occurred

in the Ohio Valley in an attack by the Miami Confederacy led by Little Turtle.

The U.S. Constitution

is a purely secular document that contains no reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders.

The 1787 Northwest Ordinances prohibited

slavery.

Jefferson's idea of the "empire of liberty" involved

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

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives has 435 members, but initially it had

65 members.

Who, out of the following, helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

Benjamin Franklin

Which was not a characteristic of the Articles of Confederation?

Each state had two votes in the upper chamber, and votes in the lower chamber were proportionately distributed by population.

Who wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"?

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

True

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

True

Fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of Americans attended college in the late eighteenth century.

True

In an effort to encourage assimilation with Indians, President Washington distributed agricultural tools and spinning wheels to Indians.

True

In the era of the Revolution, free blacks in most states had the right to vote.

True

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

True

One of America's earliest trade experiences was with China.

True

Shays's Rebellion was inspired by a belief that the Massachusetts government was not doing enough to protect indebted farmers from losing their land.

True

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

True

The American Revolution widened the divide between free Americans and those who remained in slavery.

True

The Constitution excluded Indians "not taxed" from being counted in determining each state's number of congressmen.

True

The Frenchman, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, popularized the idea of the United States as a "melting pot."

True

The final plan of the U.S. Constitution called for a two-house Congress consisting of a House of Representatives with its members apportioned according to population and a Senate in which each state was represented by two members.

True

The first written Constitution of the United States was the Articles of Confederation.

True

While Thomas Jefferson was outwardly horrified by the idea of miscegenation between blacks and whites, he apparently fathered children with his slave, Sally Hemings.

True

What state had the largest African-American population in 1790?

Virginia

What state had the largest free black population in 1790?

Virginia

What state had the largest slave population in 1790?

Virginia

The plan at the Constitutional Convention that proposed the creation of a bicameral legislature with representation in each house determined by each state's population was the

Virginia Plan.

In James Madison's view in The Federalist, the nation's large size both geographically and in terms of its population was

a source of stability.

The U.S. Constitution provides that the president is to be elected

by an electoral college.

Shays's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of

debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.

Federalism refers to

the relationship between state and national governments.

Which was not an attribute of the new nation?

the strong federal government made the laws and states enforced them

As a result of the three-fifths clause,

the white South exercised greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted.