GML Chapter 7 T/F
As originally written, the Constitution acknowledged and tacitly supported the institution of slavery.
True
Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers.
False
Alexander Hamilton was an Anti-Federalist.
False
By 1790, there were no slaves in New England.
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 of the United States was signed in 1776.
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
Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch.
False
After the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, twelve Native America communities ceded most of their land from Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.
True
By the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had already become larger than Great Britain, Spain, and France combined.
True
During the ratification debates of 1787-88, the Federalists were more effectively mobilized than the Anti-Federalists.
True
Fewer than one-tenth of one percent of the population attended college in the late eighteenth century.
True
In his will, Tadeusz Kosciuszko left funds for Thomas Jefferson to purchase and free slaves, but the founding father never used the money to do so.
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
Only thirty-nine of the original fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document.
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 Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of despotic national government.
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 two members.
True
The first written constitution of the United States was the Articles of Confederation.
True
Twelve of the first sixteen presidents owned slaves.
True
