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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

Crisis and Constitution (1776-1789)

Multiple Choice


1	The new state constitutions set up during the American Revolution:
		A)	showed a distrust for the "civic virtue" of citizens.
		B)	gave each state's governor veto power over legislation, and the opportunity for wide patronage in making office appointments.
		C)	granted universal suffrage to all adult males, removing all property requirements.
		D)	called for annual elections of the legislature.


2	The Articles of Confederation set up a national government in the United States that could best be described as:
		A)	unofficial.
		B)	monarchical.
		C)	weak.
		D)	powerful.


3	Maryland refused to ratify the Articles of Confederation:
		A)	until a clause protecting religious freedom was specifically added.
		B)	until all states had given up their claims to lands in the West.
		C)	unless the nation's capital was moved to Washington, D.C.
		D)	out of fear that it granted the new national government too much power.


4	The Northwest Ordinance provided all of the following EXCEPT:
		A)	honoring the rights of Indian tribes.
		B)	outlawing slavery in the Northwest Territory.
		C)	new states admitted to the union as equal partners of the original states.
		D)	support for public education.


5	In the decades immediately after the American Revolution:
		A)	the Confederation Congress outlawed slavery in all the Northern states.
		B)	the importation of African slaves was outlawed.
		C)	Northern states began to abolish slavery.
		D)	Upper South states such as Virginia and Maryland made it more difficult for owners to free their slaves.


6	In the years right after the American Revolution:
		A)	postwar inflation was ended by regulation of the economy.
		B)	merchants and creditors in most states favored the printing of more paper money to stimulate economic demand.
		C)	state legislatures became battlegrounds of competing economic factions.
		D)	a relatively stable economy prevailed.


7	Beyond winning independence, perhaps the most significant change brought about by the American Revolution was the:
		A)	dramatic redistribution of wealth.
		B)	growing power of democratic ideas.
		C)	election of women to major political offices.
		D)	the growing acceptance of an aristocratic elite.


8	"Republican motherhood" referred to:
		A)	the role of women in the home to raise their children as informed and self-reliant citizens.
		B)	a growing number of women elected to public office.
		C)	the equality of women in parenting and in a marriage.
		D)	leaders in the movement to grant women the right to vote.


9	Shays' Rebellion demonstrated that:
		A)	disagreements between states were becoming more violent.
		B)	the government was failing to protect property rights.
		C)	revolts by unemployed laborers in seaport cities were threatening to destroy the United States from within.
		D)	the U.S. Constitution could not prevent Americans from resorting to violence to achieve their ends.


10	Which of the following was NOT part of James Madison's "Virginia Plan"?
		A)	a more powerful central government.
		B)	a bicameral Congress with representation based on a state's population for the lower house, and two votes per state in the Senate.
		C)	an executive who would be chosen by Congress.
		D)	an independent federal judiciary as the third branch of government.


11	Anti-Federalists:
		A)	published "The Federalist Papers" to expose the class bias of those who had written the U.S. Constitution.
		B)	warned that the central government proposed under the new Constitution would be weak and ineffective.
		C)	criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to include a national bill of rights.
		D)	opposed the ratification of the Constitution because of its silence on the issue of slavery.


12	In his famous tenth essay in "The Federalist Papers," James Madison:
		A)	defended the Constitution's acceptance of slavery, arguing that the "peculiar institution" would eventually die out.
		B)	criticized the very Constitution he had helped to create.
		C)	explained that the vast size of the U.S. would actually make it more likely to sustain a republic since no one faction could dominate.
		D)	outlined the debate over ratifying the Constitution for historical reference, but refused to take sides personally.

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