Gml 7 Tf

Front 1

The Bill of Rights offered Indians a vital source of protection against further intrusions upon their land.

Back 1

False

Front 2

By the time of the Declaration of Independence, the United States had already become larger than Great Britain, Spain, and France combined.

Back 2

True

Front 3

The Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of despotic national government.

Back 3

True

Front 4

Thomas Jefferson was one of the authors of the Federalist Papers.

Back 4

False

Front 5

After the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, twelve Native America communities ceded most of their land from Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.

Back 5

True

Front 6

The constitution imposed high property qualifications for voting.

Back 6

False

Front 7

By 1790, there were no slaves in New England.

Back 7

False

Front 8

During the ratification debates of 1787–88, the Federalists were more effectively mobilized than the Anti-Federalists.

Back 8

True

Front 9

The father of the constitution was Thomas Jefferson.

Back 9

False

Front 10

The final plan of the U.S. Constitution called for a two-house Congress consisting of a House of Representatives with its members apportioned according to population and a Senate in which each state two members.

Back 10

True

Front 11

Alexander Hamilton was an Anti-Federalist.

Back 11

False

Front 12

Fewer than one-tenth of one percent of the population attended college in the late eighteenth century.

Back 12

True

Front 13

Shays’s Rebellion was inspired by a belief that the Massachusetts government was not doing enough to protect indebted farmers from losing their land.

Back 13

True

Front 14

Twelve of the first sixteen presidents owned slaves.

Back 14

True

Front 15

Only thirty-nine of the original fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document.

Back 15

True

Front 16

The 1790 Naturalization Act barred non-white foreigners from attaining American citizenship.

Back 16

True

Front 17

In his will, Tadeusz Kosciuszko left funds for Thomas Jefferson to purchase and free slaves, but the founding father never used the money to do so.

Back 17

True

Front 18

Movement of Americans westward slowed dramatically under the Articles of Confederation.

Back 18

False

Front 19

In the era of the Revolution, free blacks in most states had the right to vote.

Back 19

True

Front 20

The first written constitution of the United States was the Articles of Confederation.

Back 20

True

Front 21

More than half of the fifty-five men at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 had attended college.

Back 21

True

Front 22

Under the Articles of Confederation, national government consisted of a weak legislative branch and a strong judicial branch.

Back 22

False

Front 23

The founding fathers meant "We the People" to refer to all Americans.

Back 23

False

Front 24

The Constitution of the United States was signed in 1776.

Back 24

False

Front 25

As originally written, the Constitution acknowledged and tacitly supported the institution of slavery.

Back 25

True