HIST Module 6

____ nearly became president when both "Republican" candidates (on the same ticket) ended with the same number of electoral votes.

Arron Burr

The purchase of what territory nearly doubled the size of the United States instantly?

Louisiana

True or False: Americans complained about excessive localism and binding instructions on representatives to legislative bodies.

True

Most of the advocates for the Constitution and the First Amendment accepted that free speech simply meant ________, not a guarantee against punishment.

a lack of censorship before publication

Opponents of the Constitution advocated for a national ___ to protect the rights of Americans.

bill of rights

For Americans ________ was central to governmental authority.

consent

Shays Rebellion was a result of their state government siding with ____, which threatened their land ownership.

creditors

Opposition arose when Hamilton argued that the US government had to pay old war bonds at ____, which rewarded those who bought them cheaply.

face value

The British practice of boarding American ships and forcing sailors to join the Royal Navy was called ______.

impressment

____ intended to produce a completely new national constitution. In the preceding year, he had completed two extensive research projects—one on the history of government in the United States, the other on the history of republics around the world.

james madison

The tactics used to suppress Adams's last-minute judicial appointments lead to a landmark legal decision in the Supreme Court that established:

judicial review

The _______________ argued that the national government's authority was limited to the powers expressly granted by the U.S. Constitution. More importantly, they asserted that the states could declare federal laws unconstitutional.

kentucky and virginia resolutions

Based on the Wood reading, one could assume colonists cared the most about which branch of government.

legislative

The biggest problem the convention needed to solve was the federal government's inability to ______.

levy taxes

Leading political thinkers believed there should be _______ on democratic participation.

limits

In 1776, _____ of the American state governments observed the separation of church and state.

none

Many political leaders, including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, favored disestablishment because they saw the relationship between church and state as a tool of ___________.

opression

The ____ allowed the government to prosecute anyone found to be speaking or publishing "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government.

sedition act

Two of the most important compromises over the Constitution were over ____.

slavery

"Shaysite" protesters saw their cause and their methods as an extension of the ____; they were protecting their rights and demanding redress for the people's grievances.

spirit of 1776

For nationalists like James Madison of Virginia, Shays' Rebellion was a prime example of why the country needed a ____.

strong central government

"The Revolution of 1800" describes:

the election of Thomas Jefferson and the peaceful transition of power

Articles published in New York, supporting ratification, became one of the most important collections of writings in American political thought called:

the federalist papers

Well into the 1790s, the British maintained a military presence in __

the northwest territory

Established states were still ratifying the Constitution AFTER George Washington took office as president.

true

The delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed that there should be no FEDERALLY established or official religion, but that did not apply to the STATES.

true

True or False: American colonists disagreed with British notions of representation.

true

One of the key components of Hamilton's financial system was the assumption of ____.

unpaid state debts

Coming only four years after the American Revolution, ___________ was extremely contentious; it conjured up images of an elected monarchy.

vesting executive power in a single person

Banning importation meant slave owners in _____ could get higher prices when they sold their slaves to states like South Carolina and Georgia that were dependent on a continued slave trade.

virginia & maryland

The ultimate goal Hamilton's financial system was to link ____ Americans to the financial health of the United States--essentially getting them to "buy in" to the national project.

wealthy

A new tax on _____ led western farmers to rebel against the federal government.

whiskey