Deck 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nonimportation agreements

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
checks and balances

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
ratification

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alexander Hamilton

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Daniel Shays

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Madison

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
confederation

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
loose confederation

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
primogeniture

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
states' rights

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
republicanism

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
anarchy

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Abigail Adams

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
civic virtue

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
republican motherhood

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
popular sovereignty

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"mobocracy"

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
sovereignty

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
consent of the governed

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Constitution of the United States

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"three-fifths compromise"

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Federalists

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Land Ordinance of 1785

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Federalist

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Shays's Rebellion

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"large-state plan"

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Electoral College

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Society of the Cincinnati

Question 31

The new Republic passed a major test when

A) power was peacefully transferred from the conservative Federalists to the more liberal Jeffersonians in the election of 1800.
B) George Washington and John Adams successfully guided American foreign policy during the 1790s.
C) Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton established the two-party system.
D) Thomas Jefferson solved the Constitutional crisis by authorizing the Louisiana Purchase.
E) the War Hawks and Anti-War Federalists came together to support James Madison's War of 1812.

Question 32

Identify the statement that is false.

A) The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change.
B) The American Revolution did not suddenly and violently overturn the entire social and political framework.
C) During the American Revolution, people's lives were thrown in turmoil, they were unable to carry on day to day tasks and activities.
D) Some isolated communities were unaware that the American Revolution was even going on.
E) With the exodus of Loyalists, the emergence of a new Patriot elite was allowed to emerge.

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
antifederalists

Question 34

Identify the statement that is false.

A) History provided countless precedents for erecting a republic on a national scale.
B) By 1783, the Americans had won their freedom.
C) The Americans were blessed with a vast and fertile land.
D) The Americans had inherited from their colonial experience a proud legacy of self-rule.
E) No law of nature guaranteed that the thirteen colonies would be able to expand their democratic ideals.

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Articles of Confederation

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Great Compromise"

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
constitutional convention

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"bundle of compromises"

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Continental Congress

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom

Question 41

Early signs of the abolitionist movement can be seen in the

A) Articles of Confederation.
B) Constitution.
C) emancipation of some slaves.
D) passage of laws allowing interracial marriage.
E) abolition of slavery in a few southern states.

Question 42

All of the following were factors in the fight for the separation of church and state except

A) the Anglican Church was re-formed into the Protestant Episcopal Church.
B) The disestablishment of the Congregational Church occurred throughout New England.
C) Thomas Jefferson joined the effort.
D) reformers in Virginia secured the passage of that state's Statute for Religious Freedom.
E) there was resistance to completely disentangling the church from civic affairs in some parts of New England.

Question 43

It was highly significant to the course of future events that

A) political democracy preceded economic democracy in the United States.
B) deflation rather than inflation resulted from the Revolution.
C) no economic depression occurred as a consequence of the Revolution.
D) economic democracy preceded political democracy in the United States.
E) the United States went off the gold standard after the Revolution.

Question 44

The Founders failed to eliminate slavery because

A) they did not truly believe in democracy.
B) a fight over slavery might destroy national unity.
C) they were more concerned with securing equality for women.
D) the North, as its industry expanded, began to rely more heavily on slave labor.
E) economic conditions would not allow such a loss.

Question 45

Which of these is NOT a true statement about women's roles after the Revolution?

A) They continued to do traditional women's work.
B) They heeded Abigail Adams' warning to rebel if they did not gain political rights.
C) The new ideology of republican motherhood elevated them as special keepers of the nation's conscience.
D) They gained access to educational opportunities.
E) State constitutions, like New Jersey's, briefly gave women the right to vote.

Question 46

As a result of the Revolution's emphasis on equality,all of the following were achieved except

A) the reduction of property qualifications for voting by most states.
B) the growth of trade organizations for artisans and laborers.
C) the establishment of the world's first antislavery society.
D) full equality between women and men.
E) abolishing medieval inheritance laws.

Question 47

As a means of ensuring that legislators stay in touch with the mood of the people,state constitutions

A) were rewritten once every ten years.
B) were rewritten once every five years.
C) required yearly visits to the homes of their constituents.
D) stipulated that ordinary legislation could override the constitution.
E) required the annual election of legislators.

Question 48

As written documents,the state constitutions functioned in all of the following ways except

A) to represent a fundamental law superior to ordinary legislation.
B) as contracts that
C) as an accumulation of laws, customs and precedents.
D) to guarantee individual liberties, sometimes through a bill of rights.
E) to transform the colonies into becoming new states.

Question 49

Adopted almost a decade before the federal constitution,the ____ constitution remains the longest-lived in the world.

A) Massachusetts
B) Virginia
C) Maryland
D) Rhode Island
E) Connecticut

Question 50

All of the following are true statements about the status of blacks during the American Revolution except

A) several northern states abolished slavery or provided for gradual emancipation.
B) a few Virginia masters freed their slaves.
C) no states south of Pennsylvania outlawed slavery.
D) some states passed laws that permit blacks to marry and own land.
E) laws everywhere harshly discriminated against free and enslaved blacks.

Question 51

The world's first antislavery society was founded by

A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Quakers in Philadelphia.
C) Puritans in New England.
D) Catholics in Maryland.
E) the Congregational church.

Question 52

The struggle for divorce between religion and government,in the post-revolutionary period,proved fiercest in

A) Maryland.
B) Virginia.
C) Rhode Island.
D) Georgia.
E) Massachusetts.

Question 53

The Revolution spawned all of the following economic conditions except

A) speculation and profiteering.
B) extensive borrowing by state governments that left them buried in debt.
C) runaway deflation.
D) the opening of new foreign markets.
E) many of those who were previously wealthy were left destitute.

Question 54

Even though the wording of the Declaration of Independence says "All men are created equal," most states ____ property-holding requirements for voting.

A) kept the same
B) reduced
C) raised
D) ignored
E) raised significantly

Question 55

Continental army officers attempting to form the Society of the Cincinnati

A) were brought to trial for trying to sabotage the civil government.
B) were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions.
C) were trying to force the Congress to pay them their pensions.
D) reflected the Revolutionary War generation's spirit of equality.
E) represented the best of the officer corps.

Question 56

The Continental Congress in ____ called for the complete abolition of the slave trade,a summons to which most of the states responded positively.

A) 1770
B) 1772
C) 1774
D) 1776
E) 1780

Question 57

One reason that the United States avoided the frightful excesses of the French Revolution is that

A) America declared martial law until the Constitution was enacted in 1789.
B) the American Revolution suddenly overturned the entire political framework.
C) cheap land was easily available and America had few landed aristocrats.
D) political democracy preceded economic democracy.
E) a strong sense of class consciousness already existed.

Question 58

The economic status of the average American at the end of the Revolutionary War was

A) better than before the war.
B) probably worse than before the war.
C) about the same as before the war.
D) more closely tied to Britain than before the war.
E) more closely tied to France than before the war.

Question 59

The American Revolution was

A) truly radical.
B) inconsequential in world history.
C) an example of accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution.
D) very much like the French revolution.
E) very much like the Russian revolution.

Question 60

As a result of the Revolution,many state capitals were relocated westward

A) because better roads now made this territory more easily accessible.
B) due to a fear of British capture.
C) because water routes were now opened to the interior regions.
D) to get them away from the haughty eastern seaports.
E) All of these

Question 61

One of the most farsighted provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

A) set aside a section of each township for education.
B) abolished slavery in all of the United States.
C) prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest.
D) kept power in the national government.
E) established a commission to determine the extent of a need for a Bill of Rights.

Question 62

The major issue that delayed ratification of the Articles of Confederation concerned

A) taxation.
B) tariff policy.
C) monetary policy.
D) western lands.
E) monetary standards.

Question 63

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

A) provided for the survey and sale of public lands in the Old Northwest.
B) established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory.
C) banned slavery from all territories of the United States.
D) cleared the way for ratification of the Articles of Confederation.
E) gave control over land to the territories in which they were located.

Question 64

The delegate whose contributions to the Philadelphia Convention were so notable that he has been called the "Father of the Constitution" was

A) George Washington.
B) Benjamin Franklin.
C) James Madison.
D) Thomas Jefferson.
E) Patrick Henry.

Question 65

Shays's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for

A) lower taxes.
B) granting long-delayed bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.
C) a vigilante effort by westerners to halt the Indian threat.
D) a stronger central government.
E) a weaker military presence in the West.

Question 66

The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided for all of the following except

A) money from land sales should be used to pay off the national debt.
B) the land should be surveyed before its sale.
C) the territory should be divided into townships six miles square.
D) the sixteenth section should be sold to support education.
E) prohibiting slavery.

Question 67

The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the Constitutional Convention was

A) control of public lands.
B) control of commerce.
C) Indian policy.
D) monetary policy.
E) foreign threats to our independence.

Question 68

Immediately after the Revolution,the new American nation's greatest strength lay in its

A) ingrained respect for authority.
B) excellent political leadership.
C) lack of inhibiting political heritage.
D) sound economic structure.
E) economic ties to France.

Question 69

Shays's Rebellion was provoked by

A) fear that the Articles of Confederation had created too strong a national government for the United States.
B) efforts by wealthy merchants to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution.
C) a quarrel over the boundary between Massachusetts and Vermont.
D) foreclosures on the mortgages of debt-strapped backcountry farmers.
E) the government's failure to pay bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.

Question 70

The debate between the supporters and critics of the Articles of Confederation centered on how to

A) reconcile states' rights with strong national government.
B) transfer territories to equal statehood.
C) abolish slavery yet preserve national unity.
D) balance the power of legislative and executive offices of government.
E) conduct foreign policy while remaining neutral.

Question 71

The Second Continental Congress of Revolutionary days

A) operated with strong constitutional authority.
B) still did not comprise representatives from all thirteen states.
C) took away the sovereignty of the states.
D) was little more than a conference of ambassadors with very limited power.
E) did little of lasting value.

Question 72

A major strength of the Articles of Confederation was its

A) control over interstate commerce.
B) strong judicial branch.
C) presentation of the ideal of a united nation.
D) ability to coin money.
E) strong executive branch.

Question 73

After the Revolutionary War,both Britain and Spain

A) tried to gain control of Florida.
B) did their best to win the friendship of America.
C) prevented America from exercising effective control over about half of its total territory.
D) helped America to fight the pirates in North America.
E) abandoned their fortifications in the Old Northwest.

Question 74

The Articles of Confederation were finally approved when

A) agreement was reached on who would be president.
B) states gave up their right to coin money.
C) all states claiming western lands surrendered them to the national government.
D) the states gave up their power to establish tariffs.
E) a two-house national legislature was added.

Question 75

The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to

A) organize development of the western lands.
B) deal with foreign affairs.
C) apportion state representation equally.
D) enforce a tax-collection program.
E) establish a postal service.

Question 76

By the time the Constitution was adopted in 1789

A) the American economy was continuing to experience problems.
B) prosperity was beginning to return.
C) foreign trade was still in terrible shape.
D) inflation was continuing to increase.
E) the issue of states' rights had all but disappeared.

Question 77

The Constitutional Convention was called to

A) write a completely new constitution.
B) allow the most radical Revolutionary leaders to write their ideas into law.
C) weaken the power of the central government.
D) revise the Articles of Confederation.
E) reassess our foreign alliances.

Question 78

Which of the following Revolutionary leaders was not present at the Constitutional Convention?

A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) James Madison
D) George Washington
E) Alexander Hamilton

Question 79

Match each nation on the left with the correct description of the problem it presented for U.S.foreign relations following the Revolutionary War.

A) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4
B) A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3
C) A-2, B-2, C-3, D-4
D) A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
E) A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

Question 80

Under the Articles of Confederation,the relationship between the thirteen states

A) improved to the point of total unity.
B) was good economically but poor politically.
C) led to a single currency.
D) convinced many that a stronger central government was needed.
E) was good politically but poor economically.