History: Chapter 8 multiple choice quiz 1
felt it would provide greater protection
Georgians passed the Constitution rapidly because they
led a tax revolt
In 1786, a Massachusetts farmer and onetime captain in the Continental army named Daniel Shays
rest on the consent of the governed
A shared feature of all the postcolonial state constitutions was the conviction that government should
state government
After the Revolutionary War, active politicians often devoted their talents to
Continental congress
After the delegates to the Philadelphia convention drafted the Constitution, they sent it to the
rural westerners
Antifederalists in Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina tended to be
printing money and borrowing from private sources
During the Revolutionary War, the confederation and individual states ran up huge war debts, financed by
formal constitutional basis
From 1776 until 1781, the Second Continental Congress existed without any
settle disputes between states and administer unsettled western lands
The controversial points in the first draft of the Articles of Confederation were the congress's ability to
were troubled by the weaknesses in the confederate government
The fifty-five men who assembled in Philadelphia in 1787 generally
debated and defeated
In the debate over slavery engendered by the Revolution, bills for general emancipation in the upper South states of Maryland and Virginia were
state legislatures
In the final version of the Constitution, senators were to be elected by
small
Most political writers of the 1770s and 1780s believed that republics could succeed only if they were
a 5 percent impost tax
To solve the confederation's postwar economic problems, the superintendent of finance, Robert Morris, suggested
giving the land to settlers
Thomas Jefferson advocated dealing with the national domain after 1784 by
an extremely strong national government
At the 1787 Philadelphia meeting, the Virginia Plan for restructuring the government called for
judicial decision
By 1789, slavery in Massachusetts had been effectively abolished by
agreed to give up Virginia's western lands
The Articles of Confederation finally were accepted by all the states when James Madison and Thomas Jefferson
lacked any guarantees of individual liberties
The most widespread objection to ratifying the Constitution was that it
