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CHAPTER 06: STRENGTHENING THE NEW NATION


TRUE/FALSE



1. By raising taxes in the early 1780s, the Confederation was able to
reduce the national debt.


ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: Page 248
OBJ: Identify the achievements and shortcomings of the Confederate
government and how they contributed to the creation of the Constitution.
TOP: A Loose Alliance of States (II.A)


2. George Washington recognized Shays’s Rebellion as an indicator of the
need for a stronger form

of government.


ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 255
OBJ: Identify the achievements and shortcomings of the Confederate
government and how they contributed to the creation of the
Constitution. TOP: Shays’s Rebellion (III.A)


3. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention sharply debated whether to
establish a monarchy or

a republic.

,ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: Page 258
OBJ: Analyze the political innovations that the 1787 Constitutional
Convention developed for the new nation. TOP: Drafting the
Constitution (IV.C)


4. The New Jersey Plan proposed keeping a unicameral legislature with
equal representation for each state.


ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 258
OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
(IV.D)


5. The Supreme Court has final interpretive power over the Constitution.


ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 261
OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: The Judiciary (IV.H)


6. Under the Constitution, each slave would count as one person for
purposes of representation, but

as only half a person for taxation.


ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: Page 262
OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: Slavery (IV.J)

, 7. The Constitution mentioned the word “slave” (or “slavery”) eighteen
times.


ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: Page 262
OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: Slavery (IV.J)


8. Anti-Federalists favored a decentralized federal system of government.


ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 265
OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: Choosing Sides (V.A)


9. George Washington was appointed president without any kind of
election process.


ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: Page 270
OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: The First President (VI.A)


10. The Bill of Rights originally consisted of twelve amendments to
the Constitution.


ANS: T DIF: Difficult REF: Page 272

, OBJ: Explain the nature of the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution and how these debates were
resolved. TOP: The Bill of Rights (VI.C)


11. On the issue of the assumption of state debts, James Madison
agreed with Alexander Hamilton.


ANS: F DIF: Easy REF: Page 276
OBJ: Identify the ways that the Federalists and Republicans differed in their
visions for the United States in the 1790s. TOP: Sectional
Differences (VII.C)


12. According to Alexander Hamilton, the United States needed a
national bank to provide a stable currency and act as an engine of
prosperity.


ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 277
OBJ: Identify the ways that the Federalists and Republicans differed in their
visions for the United States in the 1790s. TOP: A National
Bank (VII.D)


13. The XYZ affair came about as part of the so-called Quasi War
with France that Adams inherited

as president.


ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: Page 294
OBJ: Examine how attitudes toward Great Britain and France shaped
American politics in the late eighteenth century. TOP: The War
with France (XI.A)