History: Chapter 8 multiple choice quiz 1

felt it would provide greater protection

Georgians passed the Constitution rapidly because they

led a tax revolt

In 1786, a Massachusetts farmer and onetime captain in the Continental army named Daniel Shays

rest on the consent of the governed

A shared feature of all the postcolonial state constitutions was the conviction that government should

state government

After the Revolutionary War, active politicians often devoted their talents to

Continental congress

After the delegates to the Philadelphia convention drafted the Constitution, they sent it to the

rural westerners

Antifederalists in Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina tended to be

printing money and borrowing from private sources

During the Revolutionary War, the confederation and individual states ran up huge war debts, financed by

formal constitutional basis

From 1776 until 1781, the Second Continental Congress existed without any

settle disputes between states and administer unsettled western lands

The controversial points in the first draft of the Articles of Confederation were the congress's ability to

were troubled by the weaknesses in the confederate government

The fifty-five men who assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 generally

debated and defeated

In the debate over slavery engendered by the Revolution, bills for general emancipation in the upper South states of Maryland and Virginia were

state legislatures

In the final version of the Constitution, senators were to be elected by

small

Most political writers of the 1770s and 1780s believed that republics could succeed only if they were

a 5 percent impost tax

To solve the confederation's postwar economic problems, the superintendent of finance, Robert Morris, suggested

giving the land to settlers

Thomas Jefferson advocated dealing with the national domain after 1784 by

an extremely strong national government

At the 1787 Philadelphia meeting, the Virginia Plan for restructuring the government called for

judicial decision

By 1789, slavery in Massachusetts had been effectively abolished by

agreed to give up Virginia's western lands

The Articles of Confederation finally were accepted by all the states when James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

lacked any guarantees of individual liberties

The most widespread objection to ratifying the Constitution was that it