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How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution in regard to sovereignty?

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Under the Articles, States had omre autonomy while the Constitution gave some powers to the united states

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How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution on regards to the economy

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Under the Articles states made more decisions about the economy than the national government

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Under the Articles of Confederation what would be considered an accomplishment of the national government?

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sassing ordinances for establishing settlement of western territory

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Which type of government demonstrates a clear cut separation of powers?

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United States Constitution

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Which state would have been pleased by both the New Jersey Plan and the three-fifths clause?

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Georgia

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What does the omission of the word "slave" or "slavery" in the text of the original Constitution suggest about the founders?

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They felt a reference to slavery tatinted American ideals on liberty and equality

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In regard to slavery what did the constitution do?

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It established a twenty year limit on the buying and selling of slaves within the United States

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By banning the importation of slaves with the constitution by 1808 what did critics of slaves accomplish?

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They hoped cutting off the supply would eventually end slavery in the United States

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What did James Madison aim to accomplish withthe protections of both public and private liberties

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He hoped to avoid more unrest like Shays Rebellion

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What influenced mens decsions of whether to support retification of the constitution

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their economic statuses and geographical locations

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What helped to encourage a ratification of the Constitution?

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the oppurtunity to leave a legacy in print

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What did James Winthrop, a Massachusetts public official fear about the new Constitution?

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Under the Constitution a citizen would lose basic civil liberties

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Which of the following scenerios can potentially be seen as a violation of the First Amendment?

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a women is arrested for organizing a peacful meeting to protest the federal governments action

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Based on the Naturalization act of 1790 who would have been allowed to become and American?

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a german immagrant

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How would slaveowners in the late eighteenth century have explained a slaves repeated stealing and drinking of alcohol

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The alcohol should have been better hidden from slaves

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Which of the following was a charcteristic of the federal government inder the articles of confederation

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Congress would not levy taxes ot regulate commerce

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Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to:

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establish national control over land tot the west of the thirteen states

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What was Congress wble to accomplish with its Native American policy under the articles of confederation?

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Congress backed away from any involvment when land companies requested that the government steo aside and leave the Wests economic development in private hands

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Why did Congress claim that some Indians had forfeited their land rights in the aftermath of independence?

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because they had aided the British during the War

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In the 1780s settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky:

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believed they had a right to take possession of western lands and use them as they saw fit

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Which of the following is true of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the appalachians in the 1780s

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They shared their British predeccessors fear that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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established the policy to admit the areas population as equal members of the political system

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With regards to slavery the Northwest Ordinance of 1787:

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banned slavery in the area north of the Ohio River and the east of the Mississippi River

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Which of the following did states NOT do during the period when the Articles of Confederation government United States?

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They called out militias to stop foreclosures on the homes of debtors

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Under the Articles of the Confederation what did the states do in regards to economics

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They created a varity of economic policies

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Shays Rebillion:

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modeled their tactics on the patriot protests of the 1760s

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Shays Rebellion was signifigant because it demonstrated:

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The need for a stronger central government

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Which of the following persons would have been the most likely supporter of the Articles of Confederation?

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an indebted farmer in Western Massachusetts

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James Madison:

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was Thomas Jefferson's ally and disciple

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Which two prominent men were nor at the Constitutional Convention?

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

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Which of the following does NOT describe those who attended the Constitution Convention?

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Most had earned thier wealth after rising from humble origins

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Which of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?

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It proposed a two-house legislature with population determining representation in each house

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The New Jersey Plan:

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was mainly supported by the smalled less populated states

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What ultimatly happened with the VIrginia and New Jersey Plans?

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a sompromise was reached employing ideas from both plans

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What qualifications did the Constitution, ratified in 1787, impose for voting?

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None it left voting rules to the states

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Why was the original House of Representative so small with only sisty-five members

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The founders assumed that only prominent individuals could win elections in large districts

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As designed by the Constitution

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federal judges were appointed by the president not elected the people

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why did the founding fathers create the electoral college?

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They did not trust ordinary voters to choose the president and the vice president directly

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The relationship between the national government and the states called:

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Federalism

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The Constitution explicitly granted Congress the power to do all of the following EXCEPT:

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emancipate slaves

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Which of the following is NOT a check against presidential power in the Constitution?

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The house can remove the president from office after impeaching him

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Which of the following is true of the Constitution of 1787 and slavery

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Although never using the word slavery the document protected several aspects of the institution

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Which of the following is true regarding Congress and the African slave trade in the United States under the Constitution?

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Congress prohibited the African slave trade twenty years after teh ratification of the Constitution

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How did southern react to the Constitutions provisions regarding slavery?

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South Carolina and Georgia imported 100,000 slaves before the international slave trade was constitutionally prohibited

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The three-fifths clasue in the U.S Constitution:

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gave the white house South greater power in national affairs thatn the size of its free population warranted

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Through 1848 a majority of presidents were wouthern slaveholders because:

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southern states recieved more electoral votes with the three-fifths clause

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Who wrote the preamble and put the final written touches on the Constitution?

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Gouverneur Morris

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The eighty-five essays written in support of ratification of the Constitution were called:

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The Federalists

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At the New York ratufying convention of the Constitution who said this document struck the perfect balance between liberty and power

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Alexander Hamiltion

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James Madison's writings about the Constitution:

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did much to help Americans understand its new political institutions

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In the Federalists Hames Madison argued that:

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the large size of the United States was a source of political stability

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Which of the following groups tended to be Anti-Federalists during the ratificatino debates

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state politicians fearful of a strong central government

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Anti-Federalists included

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Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry

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In the History of the American Revolution David Ramsey:

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praised american state consititutions for allowing future amendments

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The Anti Federalists James Winthrop argued that a bill of rights was nessasary in the constitution because:

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it would secure the minoirty against the usurpation and tyranny of the majority

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During the process of ratifying the constitution:

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Englsih law strongly influenced some of its provisions

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all of the following of the bo=ill of rights are true EXCEPT

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it explicitly granted the right of seccession

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The first amendment dealt with:

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free speech

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Which of the following is true of how the U.S. government in the 1790s dealt with Native Americans

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The U.S government made treaties with them mainly to transfer land to itself or to the states

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Who was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers

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Little Turtle

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Under the treaty of greenville of 1795

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twelve indian tribles ceded most of Ohio and Indians to the federal government

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What was the annuity system involving the U.S government and certain indian tribes

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a system under ehich the federal government gave annual monetary grants to Indians

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Hector St. John Cerecorcoues Letters from an american farmer:

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popularized the idea of the United States as a melting pot of ethnicites

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During the early years of the republic African Americans

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made up close to 20 percent of the total population

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Which of the following is true of american national identity as envisioned by the constitution

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the people were free americans native americans and other persons meaning

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the naturalization act of 1790 allowed

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only free white persons to become citizens

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Who wrote notes of the state of virginia

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thomas jefferson

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thomas jefferson believed that African Americans

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would eventually be free but america should be a homogeneous society

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by tbe 1790s the phrase we the pwoplw came to mean what

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rights were increasing for white americans

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