Give Me Liberty Ch. 7 Quiz

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

65 members

Who helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

Benjamin Franklin

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

Declare war

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.

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 imposed high property qualifications for voting.

False

The Constitution of the United States was signed in 1776.

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.

False

Which of the following was not a significant difference between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?

Federalists were overwhelmingly northern. Anti-Federalists were overwhelmingly southern.

One of the leading Federalist thinkers was

James Madison

The "father of the Constitution" was:

James Madison.

Which two states voted against ratification?

Rhode Island and North Carolina

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

The Federalist

Which is NOT true of Anti-Federalists?

They were often financiers and others in cities and nearby rural areas.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

True

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

True

Less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the population attended college in the late eighteenth century.

True

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

True

Movement of Americans westward increased during the period under the Articles of Confederation.

True

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

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 a 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 was represented by two members.

True

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

True

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

Virginia

Which state had the largest free black population in 1790?

Virginia

Which state had the largest slave population in 1790?

Virginia

The plan at the Constitutional Convention that proposed creation of a two-house 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.

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

education

The costliest loss of human life suffered by the U.S. Army in warfare against American Indians in American history—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 one reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders.

The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited

slavery

Which was NOT an attribute of the new nation?

the federal government made the laws and states enforced them

Federalism refers to

the relationship between state and national governments.