Chapter 7 Review

The plan at the Constitutional Convention that proposed creation of a bicameral legislature with representation in each house determined by each state’s population was

• the New Jersey Plan.

• the Virginia Plan.

• the small states’ plan.

• the Massachusetts Constitutional model plan.

The eighty-five essays published by “Publius” and gathered into a book in 1788 was entitled

• The Rights of Man.

• The Bill of Rights.

• The Federalist.

• The Publius Documents.

Which of the following was not a significant difference between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?

• Federalists

  appealed more to merchants, artisans, and commercially oriented

  landowners; Anti-Federalists appealed more to small farmers in areas remote from commercial markets.

• Federalists were overwhelmingly northern; Anti-Federalists were overwhelmingly southern.

• Federalists believed that the clash of diverse interests in a large republic would enhance American freedom; Anti-Federalists did not.

• Anti-Federalists saw centralized national authority as subversive of American freedom; Federalists did not.

Which is not true of Anti-Federalists?

• They opposed the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights.

• Many were state politicians who feared that their power would diminish with the creation of a strong central government.

• They were often small backcountry farmers.

• They were often financiers and others in cities and nearby rural areas.

Initially—and until the Fourteenth Amendment (1868)—the rights guaranteed to American citizens in the Bill of Rights

• applied only to the federal government and its laws, not to the states.

• was frequently invoked by state courts on local issues.

• applied both to state governments and federal governments.

• was in force only in northern states.

The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited

• established religion.

• slavery

• Indian reservations.

• land speculation.

Define “prohibited.”

• required

• allowed

• forbidden

• tolerated

In James Madison’s view in The Federalist, the nation’s large size both geographically and in terms of its population was

• a difficulty because democracies historically were always small.

• burdensome on the wealthy.

• a source of stability.

• irrelevant to good government.

One of the leading Federalist thinkers was

• Sam Adams.

• James Madison

• Patrick Henry

• Daniel Shays

The costliest loss of human life suffered by the U.S. Army in warfare against Indians in American history, with 630 dead, occurred

• in the Ohio Valley in an attack by the Miami Confederacy led by Little Turtle.

• at Little Big Horn, Montana, when General George Custer’s troops were slaughtered.

• at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, when the Dakota Sioux attacked the U.S. Army forces under the command of James W. Forsyth.

• at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the culmination of the fight between

  Indians and American troops for control of the Old Northwest

  Territories.