chapter 7

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

false

Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of The Federalist.

false

Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch.

false

Define "prohibited."

forbidden

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 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 one reference to God and bars religious tests for federal officeholders.

The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited

slavery.

During the ratification debates of 1787-1788, the Federalists were more effectively mobilized than the Anti-Federalists.

true

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

true

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

65 members.

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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 has two members

true

Twelve of the first sixteen presidents owned slaves.

true

Which of the following was not an element of western policy under the Articles of Confederation?

procedures for the naturalization of Indians as American citizens

The plan at the Constitutional Convention that proposed 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 "first object of government" is

the protection of property rights.

Federalism refers to

the relationship between state and national governments.

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

What state had the largest free black population in 1790?

Virginia

What state had the largest slave population in 1790?

Virginia

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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 first written constitution of the United States was the Articles of Confederation.

true

Which of the following was not a feature of the new federal Constitution?

Congress was empowered to abolish slavery in the United States—but not before 1808.

Define "secular."

Define "secular."

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.

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

Kentucky

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 entitled

The Federalist.

Which was not an attribute of the new nation?

The federal government made the laws and states enforced them

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

They assert that presidents are to make declarations of war.

Which is not true of Anti-Federalists?

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

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

Virginia

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.

Initially—and until the Fourteenth Amendment (1868)—the rights guaranteed to American citizens in the Bill of Rights

applied only to the federal government and its laws, not to the states.

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 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

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