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25 Cards in this Set
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The Bill of Rights offered Indians a vital source of protection against further intrusions upon their land.
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False
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By the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had already become larger than Great Britain, Spain, and France combined.
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True
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The Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of despotic national government.
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True
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Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers.
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False
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After the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, twelve Native America communities ceded most of their land from Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.
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True
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The constitution imposed high property qualifications for voting.
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False
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By 1790, there were no slaves in New England.
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False
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During the ratification debates of 1787–88, the Federalists were more effectively mobilized than the Anti-Federalists.
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True
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The father of the constitution was Thomas Jefferson.
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False
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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.
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True
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Alexander Hamilton was an Anti-Federalist.
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False
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Fewer than one-tenth of one percent of the population attended college in the late eighteenth century.
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True
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Shays’s Rebellion was inspired by a belief that the Massachusetts government was not doing enough to protect indebted farmers from losing their land.
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True
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Twelve of the first sixteen presidents owned slaves.
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True
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Only thirty-nine of the original fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document.
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True
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The 1790 Naturalization Act barred non-white foreigners from attaining American citizenship.
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True
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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.
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True
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Movement of Americans westward slowed dramatically under the Articles of Confederation.
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False
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In the era of the Revolution, free blacks in most states had the right to vote.
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True
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The first written constitution of the United States was the Articles of Confederation.
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True
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More than half of the fifty-five men at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had attended college.
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True
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Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch.
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False
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The founding fathers meant "We the People" to refer to all Americans.
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False
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The Constitution of the United States was signed in 1776.
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False
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As originally written, the Constitution acknowledged and tacitly supported the institution of slavery.
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True
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