CH. 8 U.S. History
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What did the national government lack under the Articles of Confederation?
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D. The ability to conduct foreign relations
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How did the Articles of Confederation incorporate the power of the states?
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C. Nine states had to vote to amend the articles.
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Who was responsible for passing tax bills under the Articles of Confederation?
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C. State governments
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The Articles of Confederation were finally approved in 1781, when all the states agreed to surrender their
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B. power to declare war.
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What was a shared feature of all the state constitutions drawn up during the American Revolution?
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D. Two houses: upper and lower
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Virginia's constitution was the first to
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B. eliminate the office of governor.
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What was the effect of property qualifications on voters and candidates in the new states?
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A. They silenced political opposition to the new government.
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Writers of the new state constitutions believed that voting requirements should
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A. prevent women from demanding the vote.
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Why were some states reluctant to include \"equality language\" in their bills of rights and constitutions?
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B. Such language could spark slave rebellions in the North.
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What led to the largest emancipation of blacks in the deep South immediately after the Revolution?
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D. The decreasing importance of slave labor
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What financial problem did the confederation government face after the war?
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A. The lack of power to issue currency
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How did Massachusetts respond to Shays's Rebellion?
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C. It issued paper money.
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What was the legacy of Shays's Rebellion?
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B. State legislatures took action to curb the powers of Congress.
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Who, along with Alexander Hamilton, was instrumental in calling for the Philadelphia meeting in May 1787 to discuss the Articles of Confederation?
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A. Patrick Henry
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What was the consensus among delegates to the Constitutional Convention about the Articles of Confederation?
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C. They thought the federal government's powers should be restricted.
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Which issue dominated debate at the Constitutional Convention?
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D. Whether or not presidential powers should be increased
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At the Constitutional Convention, the proposal to create a two-chamber legislature—with representation in both houses based on each state's population—was known as the
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D. Virginia Plan.
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What was the smaller states' major objection to the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention?
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A. Representation based on population in both houses
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As a part of the Great Compromise, delegates at the Philadelphia convention agreed
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C. that the lower house would be apportioned by population of the states.
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How did delegates decide to count slaves when determining the apportionment of representatives?
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A. Slaves were counted under the three-fifths clause.
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When the Constitution was drafted, slavery was
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A. not named but recognized and guaranteed.
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In a new distinction between democracy and republicanism, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention
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B. gave a direct voice to the people only in the House.
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How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention create a presidency out of the reach of direct democracy?
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A. They devised the Electoral College.
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According to the Constitution, who would settle disputes between states and citizens of different states?
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C. A national judiciary
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Who had to ratify the Constitution before it could go into effect?
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D. Nine states in ratifying conventions
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During the process of ratifying the Constitution, what was true of the three most populous states, Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York?
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C. Substantial majorities opposed the Constitution in all three states.
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The core of Antifederalists' opposition to the Constitution centered on what fear?
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D. Distant power might infringe on people's individual liberties.
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In essay 10 of The Federalist, James Madison maintained that the constitutional government would
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C. prevent any one faction from subverting the freedom of other groups.
