US History, 6,7

The estimated percentage of free Americans who remained loyal to the British during the Revolution was

20 to 25 percent.

Advertisements for runaway slaves were rare in the early republic.

False

Alexander Hamilton was an Anti-Federalist.

False

Alexander Hamilton was one of the few political framers from the former colony of Georgia.

False

Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.

False

During the War of Independence, nearly every state increased importation of slaves from Africa.

False

Few men considered women naturally submissive and irrational in revolutionary-era America.

False

In eighteenth-century America, the idea of "companionate" marriage included the notion that men and women would marry voluntarily and live in a female-dominated relationship.

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 embodies three basic political principles: federalism, anti-federalism, and the system of checks and balances.

False

The Constitution imposed high property qualifications for voting.

False

The Revolutionary War strengthened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.

False

The authority of church leaders went remarkably unchallenged during the revolutionary era

False

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

False

Independence created governments democratically accountable to voters who coveted

Indian land.

Who developed the state constitution that gave the governor an effective veto over laws passed by the legislature, included a two-chamber legislature and powerful judiciary, and was subsequently an important model for the U.S. Constitution?

John Adams

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Shays's Rebellion; Philadelphia Convention; ratification of Constitution

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the Anti-Federalists?

They were often small country farmers.

Which of the following founding fathers served as ambassador to France during the Washington administration when Shays's Rebellion took place?

Thomas Jefferson

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

True

From 1776 to 1807, property-owning women were legally allowed to vote in New Jersey.

True

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

True

Loyalists who did not leave the country were quickly reintegrated into American society.

True

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

True

The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.

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

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?

Anti-Federalists criticized the Constitution for lacking a Bill of Rights; Federalists did not see a need for a Bill of Rights.

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

Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

a published poet and slave of African origins.

To prevent them from being seized by British vessels and "impressed" into the British Navy, Congress in 1790 granted citizenship to Select one:

black sailors

Which of the following was an attribute of the new nation?

broad distribution of property ownership

During the Revolutionary War, a Massachusetts group of women accused a merchant of hoarding coffee, later taking matters into their own hands by

forcing open the merchant's warehouse and taking the goods.

The Treaty of Paris marked a change in which the balance of power

in eastern North America shifted away from the Indians and toward white Americans.

The first time in recorded human history that slavery was eradicated by legislative power of government was

in the United States during and after the American Revolution.

The Constitution mandates that the President of the United States must be a(n)

natural born citizen

Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished "primogeniture," which is defined as

passing the entirety of a family's land to the oldest son.

What was Thomas Jefferson's solution to tension between Indians and whites after the American Revolution?

the removal of Indians to territory beyond the Mississippi River

As a result of the three-fifths clause,

the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted.

Which of the following defines republican motherhood?

training sons to be future citizens