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To gain ratification of the constitution, federalists promised that adding a Bill of Rights to constitution would be the first to order of business once the congress met

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true

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Federalists papers

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Series of essays written by 3 prominent advocates of the new constitution that sought to gain support for its ratification in New York State

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States were specifically forbidden to

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Develop their own currency

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Most significant outcome of Shays rebellion was that

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Demonstrated that the federal government was incapable of settling the debt situation under articles of confederation

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Features of the articles of confederation thag made it very virtually impossible to make any changes to them was

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Necessity of having all states agree on any proposed legislation

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Land Ordinance of 1785 was most favorable to

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Wealthy speculators

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Only large state to ratify the constitution by end of 1788 was Virginia

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false

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John Adams was a one term president in large part due to

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Political controversy over the alien and sedition acts

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Hamilton tariff of 1789 brought in enough money so the federal government didn't has to always be presently concerned about having insufficient revenue

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True

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Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were the first instances of individual states attempting to

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Nullify a federal law

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Leader of the Forces that defeated the British at the battle of horseshoe bend was

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Andrew Jackson

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After he killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron burr spent the rest of his life in the Caribbean mired in shame

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false

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Democratic-republicans in congress believed that a war would be

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A second "war of independence" that would be necessary to get Britain to conclusively accept American independence

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Not true about Tecumseh and his brother the prophet

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They tried to Organize their tribes for a massive migration westward

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Under non-intercourse act of 1809

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American ships could trade with all nations except Britain and France

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Three-fifths clause dealt with

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Counting of slaves for representation in the slave states

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Not a power of the continental army

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Select a president

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Articles of confederation did attempt to set forth a national policy on internal trade and commerce but the plan was too vague to be much of use

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false

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First congress found that Ayer all the work of the continental convention, constitution left a great many issued not clearly defined

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true

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Hamilton argued that congress had the power to create a national bank because

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Constitution gave congress to power to do whatever was necessary to carry out its stated roles

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Treaty of Greenville

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Drove the Indian tribes of the Ohio river valley to do whatever was necessary to carry out its stated roles

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Tecumseh and the prophet were brothers who belonged to Shawnee tribe

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true

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The "revitalization movement" involved

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Encouraging Indians to return to traditional lifestyles

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Person who was commissioned to design Washington D.C.s Capitol building was an Englishman named Gilbert Stuart

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false

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Not true of the battle of New Orleans

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Occurred the treating ending hostilities between Britain andUS was signed by two nations

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Main way in which individual states competed with each other under the Articles of Confederation was through

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Lowering their respective tariffs on goods from other countries

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Whiskey tax, taxed small producers more than it did larger products, because the government wanted to prove to small farmers and westerners that he had the power to do so

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true

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Indian and intercourse acts made it illegal to trade with or buy lands from indians without their consent of the federal government

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true

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In the debate about how people should address the president

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Washington remained silent

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Under Naturalization Act of 1790

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only immigrants who were both free and white could ever become citizens

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Federalists believed they had a good chance to win the election of 1808 because of the unpopularity of Jefferon's Embargo Act of 1807

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true

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Americas magazine was the North American Review

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true

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1804 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson faced stiff competition from the Federalists

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false

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for the constitution to take effect, nine of the 13 states had to ratify it

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true

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at constitutional convention, issue of slave trade raised heated feelings that the delegates refused to talk about a time in the future for ending that practice

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false

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articles had no power to force states to cede their extra land to the federal government, it was not until 1802 that all western lands had been ceded back to the government

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true

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implied powers suggested the constitution gave congress much more power by stating that it had the power to do whatever "necessary and proper" to the efficient functioning of government

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true

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James madison changed his mind on several political issues after the war of 1812 one of them being his opposition to a national bank

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true

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New Jersey plan called for

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revision of the Articles of Confederation, giving each state equal representation

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Farmers who came out in protest in Massachusetts in 1786 demanded

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moratorium on taxes and lawsuits against debaters

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in his farewell address, Washington urged Americans to

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try to develop a nonpartisan political system to resolve their political differences

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Judiciary Act of 1789

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set up 13 district courts and 3 circuit courts to accompany the supreme court

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gabriel's conspiracy was a direct result of the Haitian Revolution

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true

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Gilbert Stuart

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painted many of the famous portraits of founding fathers

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Sedition Act was controversial because

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led to the imprisonment of several Federalists newspaper editors

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Democratic Republicans were opposed to president Washington's response to

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the Haitian Revolution

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not true about the Louisiana purchase

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Jefferson paid $5 million for the land all the way to the Rocky Mountains

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neither the articles of confederation nor any state constitution directly addressed powers expressly reserved to the states

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false

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anti-federalists preferred a weaker confederation of states and more direct democracy than provided for in the constitution

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true

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Electoral college was put in place

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because the constitution convention didn't trust democracy or the masses to elect the most qualified person as president

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the first congress found that after all the work of the constitutional convention, the constitution left a great many issued not clearly defined

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true

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James Madison proposed 17 amendments to the Constitution. Congress approved only 12 of the amendments, and the states, ultimately ratified only 10 of the original 17 amendments proposed by Madison

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true

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from his cabinet choices, it is clear that Washington

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was trying to achieve a political balance in perspectives from his advisers

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americans thought it was unfair that Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton, wanted the federal government to assume states' debts from war, since some states had paid off good bit of their debt while others didn't

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true

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purpose of lewis and clark expedition was to explore

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land west of the U.S. from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

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the group in congress that pushed for war with Britain was

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westerners who blamed Britain for increasing troubles with indians in the midwest

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patriotic song was written during the War of 1812

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the Star spangled banner

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proposals emanating from the Hartford Convention led to the perception by many southerns and westerners that the Federalists party had been involved in treasonous action

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true

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bill of rights addressed grievances Americans had suffered as colonists, except

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authoritarian and undemocratic local governments

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final state to ratify the Constitution was

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Rhode Island

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not true about Jay's Treaty

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Britain agreed to stop impressing American sailors

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Hamilton argued that Congress had the power to create a national bank because

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the constitution gave congress the power to do whatever was necessary to carry out its stated roles

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peace treaty ending the war of 1812

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All of these choices. Was negotiated at Ghent, did not resolve the impressment issue, left open the question of America's right to neutrality

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Embargo Act of 1807

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All of these choices. Prompted American traders to begin smuggling goods out of the country, had a devastating effect on the American economy, stopped American exports from going to Europe and banned U.S. ships from trading in foreign ports, proved to be the biggest mistake of Jefferson's administration

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articles had no power to force states to cede their extra land to the federal government, not until 1802 that all western lands had been ceded back to the government

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true

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when new government went into operation in 1789, its first order of business was to

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set precedents according to Constitutional guidelines

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America's national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner," was set to the music of an English drinking song.

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true

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Effort to establish the first United States National Bank in 1781 failed because

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Rhode Island used its unilateral power under the Articles of Confederation to block it because it disliked the imposition of a 5% import tax with which the bank was to be funded

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