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chapter 7 nolan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| most state constitutions and government systems were arranged so that those controlling post-revolutionary america were : | the same people who had ruled before the war but also included more yeomen farmers, middling farmers, and artisans |
| the articles of confederation | provided the young republic with the framework for a dynamic society, leaving to each state various rights and powers but uniting all under a central government with authority in foreign and domestic affairs of state |
| a postwar crisis developed for all of the following reasons except | the British threatened to invade America from Canada |
| In the West, the Confederation Congress | both restricted and allowed for the expansion of slavery |
| Shays's Rebellion was essentially a struggle about the | lack of debtor-relief legislation. |
| The nationalists took all of the following assertive actions to ensure the ratification of a new constitution except | submitting the Constitution to the state legislatures for unanimous consent for ratification. |
| The Constitution offered to the states for ratification in 1787 achieved all of the following except | the creation of a national government whose authority would be the supreme law of the land |
| The Federalists won ratification for all of the following reasons except | as shrewd politicians, they promised special favors in return for votes in state ratification campaigns |
| The Virginia Plan differed from the New Jersey Plan in that it : | gave the national government the power to overturn state laws. |
| Chesapeake slave owners lobbied the Constitutional convention for | an end to the Atlantic slave trade |
| In his financial program, Hamilton wanted to | empower the central government by connecting its interests to those of the elite |
| Jay's controversial treaty of 1795 with the British included all of the following terms except | a return of property confiscated from Loyalists during the Revolution |
| Jefferson objected to Hamilton's fiscal programs because they | went beyond a strict interpretation of the Constitution. |
| The Whiskey Rebellion was especially frightening because the rebels | looked to the French Revolution for inspiration. |
| Two political factions grew out of the Federalists as a result of conflict over | Hamilton's fiscal programs |
| The new republican state governments promoted | a moderate amount of democracy, with a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. |
| The land policy of the Confederation Congress accomplished all of the following except the | establishment of friendly relations with Native Americans |
| Pennsylvania's constitution differed from that of most states because it | allowed all taxpayers the right to vote and hold office. |
| In the 1780s, the states were pressured to raise taxes by | speculators, who wanted the states to pay off their war bonds at full value |
| John Adams's plan for government | adapted British Whig notions of mixed government to the new republic |
| Who was not at the Philadelphia convention? | John Adams |
| Who among the following former Patriots was not an Antifederalist? | George Washington |
| The immediate result of the passage of the Bill of Rights was | the pacification of irate Antifederalists, which reinforced the legitimacy of the Constitution |
| The delegates at the Constitutional convention protected southern slave owners by | allowing owners to reclaim their fugitive slaves hiding in other states. |
| James Madison, author of The Federalist--now viewed as a classical work of republican political theory--argued that special interest groups | were dangerous in a small republic but could be controlled in a large republic |
| Among the following ideas, the only one Thomas Jefferson did not believe in was | the abolition of slavery in the South |
| The Republicans won the election in 1800 because | John Adams's administration had enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts |
| How did the French Revolution affect the American economy? | American merchants profited handsomely from the war |
| In its early phase, the war in Europe | brought prosperity to American merchants as American neutrality allowed for numerous commercial opportunities and advantages in relation to both Britain and France |
| The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions argued for | the right of states to overturn federal law |
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