Gml: Chapter 7

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Which was not an attribute of the new nation?

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the federal government made the laws and states enforced them

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The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited:

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slavery

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In James Madison’s view in The Federalist, the “first object of government” is:

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protection of property rights.

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Which is not true of Anti-Federalists?

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They were often financiers and others in cities and nearby rural areas.

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The costliest loss of human life suffered by the U.S. Army in warfare against Indians in American history—630 dead—occurred:

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in the Ohio Valley in an attack by the Miami Confederacy led by Little Turtle.

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Who wrote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”?

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Thomas Jefferson

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Which of the following was not a key principle embedded in the Bill of Rights?

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free public education

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Today the U.S. House of Representatives has 435 members, but initially it had:

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65

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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:

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Virginia Plan.

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The U.S. Constitution provides that the president is to be elected:

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by an electoral college.

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Which of the following was not a concern voiced by the nationalists over the state of the republic under the Articles of Confederation?

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Freedom of speech was imperiled under the current system.

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Federalism refers to:

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the relationship between state and national governments.

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Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to:

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declare war.

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

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Shays’s Rebellion; Philadelphia Convention; ratification of Constitution. Treaty of Greenville; American defeat of Miami Confederacy; prohibition of slavery in Old Northwest

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Which of the following was not a significant difference between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?

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Federalists were overwhelmingly northern; Anti-Federalists were overwhelmingly southern.

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Which of the following was not an element of western policy under the Articles of Confederation?

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procedures for the naturalization of Indians as American citizens

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The U.S. Constitution

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is a purely secular document that contains one reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders.

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Define “secular”:

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not pertaining to or connected with religion

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Which two states voted against ratification?

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Rhode Island and North Carolina

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Which state was not eventually created from the region delimited by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

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Kentucky

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What state had the largest free black population in 1790?

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Virginia

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Shays’s Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of:

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debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.

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Under the rule of the U.S. Constitution, which remains in the hands of the states?

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education

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Who, out of the following, helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

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Benjamin Frank

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The eighty-five essays published by “Publius” and gathered into a book in 1788 was entitled:

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The Federalist Papers

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Which of the following was not a feature of the new federal constitution?

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Congress was empowered to abolish slavery in the United States—but not before 1808.

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Initially—and until the Fourteenth Amendment (1868)—the rights guaranteed to American citizens in the Bill of Rights:

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applied only to the federal government and its laws, not to the states.

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What state had the largest slave population in 1790?

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Virginia

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One of the leading Federalist thinkers was:

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James Madison.

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Which is not true of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

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They assert that presidents are to make declarations of war.

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Which was not a characteristic of the Articles of Confederation?

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Each state had two votes in the upper chamber and votes in the lower chamber were proportionately distributed by population.

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What state had the largest African American population in 1790?

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Virginia

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The “father of the Constitution” was:

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James Madison

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In James Madison’s view in The Federalist, the nation’s large size both geographically and in terms of its population was:

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a source of stability