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________ caused the most important changes in voting patterns in the immediate post-war years. |
Western migration |
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The most brilliant American political theorist of the post-revolutionary period was |
James Madison |
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The compromise which resolved the dispute between the large and the small states included each of the following EXCEPT |
all bills pertaining to taxation or spending would begin in the upper house. |
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The Articles of Confederation |
jealously guarded state sovereignty at the expense of national power. |
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How did disagreements between Federalists and Antifederalists reflect the political climate of the 1780s and predict the climate of the 1800s? |
The disagreement showed how the country was divided and would be divided for the next several decades on state, federal, and individual rights. |
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How did Shays’s Rebellion help advance Madison’s reformation ideas? |
People throughout the United States realized that law and order were breaking down. |
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Why did those who campaigned actively for ratification of the Constitution call themselves "Federalists"? |
The term suggested that they stood for a confederation of states and not for a supreme national authority. |
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How does the modern Bill of Rights compare to that of 1789? |
The modern one allows for freedoms despite ethnicity, race, gender, or sexual orientation—provisions that were not made in 1789. |
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Under the terms of the ________, an orderly process for laying out lands and towns in the western territory was established. |
Land Ordinance of 1785 |
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The proposed new Constitution of 1787 called for the election of a president by |
an electoral college |
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How did the Constitutional Convention affect slavery? |
It permitted Congress to outlaw the importation of slaves in 1808. |
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The European philosopher whose ideas supported the theory of state sovereignty was |
Montesquieu. |
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Under his intellectual guidance, the Constitutional Convention formed a new government. |
James Madison |
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The law permitting a man to pass on his entire estate to his eldest son was known as |
primogeniture |
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John Dickinson’s 1776 plan for a new United States government revolved around the concept of |
a strong central government |
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
defined the process by which a territory became a state. |
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How did the question of slavery impact the Constitutional Convention? |
It threatened to disrupt and destroy the work of the convention. |
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How were women affected by the political ideas of the American Revolution? |
The ideas caused them to be more assertive about their roles in the family. |
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How was slavery an obvious contradiction to the principles of the American republic? |
Americans claimed to be fighting for freedom, but still enslaved others. |
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Shays’s Rebellion involved |
discontented farmers in Massachusets |
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The three-fifths rule concerned the issue of |
whether to count slaves as part of the population. |
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The most important result of the Annapolis Meeting of 1786 was |
the nationalists’ recommendation to Congress for a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. |
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The author of the original proposal for the Bill of Rights was |
James Madison |
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The controversy which delayed ratification of the Articles of Confederation involved |
the disposition of western lands. |
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In the 1780s, why did Americans disagree sharply over the relative importance of liberty and order? |
After British tyranny Americans valued liberty but also valued an ordered society. |
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How could a territory become a state according to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? |
Once population reached 60,000, residents could write a constitution and petition for statehood. |
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As understood in the late 1700s, a republic was a system in which ultimate political authority is vested in |
the people |
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Why was there an uproar surrounding the formation of the Society of the Cincinnati? |
The public feared that it would begin a hereditary peerage in America. |
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Even before achieving statehood, ________ prohibited slavery in its constitution. |
Vermont |
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An important procedural decision approved at the opening of the Constitutional Convention involved |
the decision to keep deliberations as secret as possible. |
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How did the debate between public morality and private freedom mirror political debate in the 1780s? |
Americans defended individual rights but believed that a society without virtue couldn’t preserve liberty and independence. |
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The leading African American scientist and mathematician in early America was |
Benjamin Banneker |
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How did the Bill of Rights of 1789 protect only some individual freedoms? |
They protected the freedoms of speech, religion, press, trial, bearing arms, and searches but did not grant rights to non-white males. |
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The most important accomplishment of Congress under the Articles of Confederation was its |
passage of ordinances organizing the Northwest Territory. |
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An important fact about the Americans who wrote the first state constitutions was that they |
demanded written documents |
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The Federalist was a series of essays written by |
Madison, Hamilton, and Jay |
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Why did disagreements over western lands delay the ratification of the Articles of Confederation? |
Some states claimed the land that Britain had given to Native Americans; and other states had no claim on the land. |
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How did the Philadelphia Convention delegates ensure ratification of the Constitution? |
They called for electing 13 state conventions and allowing only nine state legislatures to ratify it. |
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Why was James Madison described as a political genius? |
He helped Americans think of republican government in radical new ways |
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How many states did not have to draft new constitutions, since they already had republican governments as part of their colonial charters? |
two |
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Most new state constitutions after the American Revolution |
included Declarations of Rights. |
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Why didn’t William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan appeal to most delegates of the Philadelphia Convention? |
X- It only represented the wishes of the smaller states, excluding the larger and more powerful states. X- It was strongly supported by Madison and his colleagues, so most delegates rejected it on that basis alone. |
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Why did most first state constitutions include a bill of rights? |
X- To create a stronger central federal government. X- To prevent a stronger central federal government. |
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What was the effect of the American Revolution on slavery? |
X- At the end of the war, slavery was abolished in northern states. X- The war emancipated African Americans in a several states. |
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Why did the Articles of Confederation give states more power than the central government? |
The delegates believed that powerful central governments were dangerous. |
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Why did Gouverneur Morris use the phrase "We the people of the United States" in the new Constitution? |
X- He wanted to include women and African Americans in the rights described in the document. |
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What did women gain as a result of the American Revolution? |
X- Women gained voting rights and access to higher education access. X- Women could now become landowners, shopkeepers, and dress makers. |
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Why did the new Constitution of 1787 call for the election of a president by Electoral College? |
X- So that no state would have more power than another no matter its size. |
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Why were Antifederalists concerned about the new Constitution? |
X- They worried that public officials would scheme to increase their power. X- They saw that smaller republics were prone to political corruption. |
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Why did the delegates at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention vow to secrecy during the proceedings? |
To avoid erroneous and mischievous rumors. |
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