History Ch.6 Quiz- Const/New Republic

By the late 1780s, dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation included a belief that the national government…

Was ineffective

The financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT…

Nullification of private debts to states

The men who wrote the Constitution resolved the question of sovereignty by deciding that in the United States, political power rested ultimately with the…

People

The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to…

Protect rights not specified in the Constitution

The achievement of the "Great Compromise" of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was its resolution of the problem regarding…

Political representation

The Alien and Sedition Acts were designed to…

Weaken and deflect Republican criticism of the Federalists

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions took the position that…

The authority of state governments included the power to decide whether or not an act of Congress was constitutional

Which of the following was true of the U.S. Constitution as adopted at the Constitutional Convention?

It was built on a series of compromises

When war broke out in Europe in 1793 between France and Great Britain, the U.S. government…

Declared the country neutral and tried to keep the country out of it

The Federalist Papers were written in order to…

Attain ratification of the Constitution

To protect the country from the problems of concentrated authority, the writers of the Constitution used the idea of…

All of the answers are correct (Federal structure of government, separation of powers, system of checks and balances)

The United States has what type of structure of government, that divides power between the state governments and the national government…

Federal

The "Revolution of 1800" refers to…

The belief of Thomas Jefferson that the Republican victory signaled a fundamental change in American politics

The event that resulted in the Quasi War between the U.S. and France was the

XYZ Affair

The Federalists of the 1790s believed that the U.S. should have…

A strong central government and a well-developed economy

The "Three-Fifths Compromise" originally contained in the Constitution referred to the…

Rate at which one enslaved person counted toward congressional representation

Alexander Hamilton, Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, 1791

Hamilton's constitutional argument was based on which of the following types of powers?

Implied

George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

One of the strong reasons Washington and others warned against political parties was concern about

Divisive sectionalism

Firm, united let us be,

Rallying round our Liberty,

As a band of brothers join'd,

Peace and safety we shall find.

Which of the following developments best explains the sentiment expressed in the first verse of the song lyrics?

The growth among people in the U.S. of a sense of national identity

Firm, united let us be,

Rallying round our Liberty,

As a band of brothers join'd,

Peace and safety we shall find.

Which of the following best explains the depiction of George Washington in the third verse of the song?

The popular image in national culture of Washington as a virtuous leader