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