APUSH Chapter 6 & 7 Test

What organized the western U.S. territory & provided for schools?

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Proclamation of 1763

• Western Decree of 1787

• Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions

What banned slavery north of the Ohio river & determined how territories become a state?

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Proclamation of 1763
• Alien & Sedition Acts
• The Great Compromise

What armed protest against tax collectors & the courts showed the need for a stronger national gov't?

• Shay's Rebellion
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Turner's Rebellion
• Brown's Rebellion

Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose ratification of the U.S. Constitution?

• it didn't protect individual rights
• it created the Bank of the U.S.
• it created a weak central gov't
• it gave territory back to Great Britain

How did the Great Compromise solve the issue of state representation in the national legislature?

• unicameral legislature with 3-7 delegates based on population

• bi-cameral legislature; by population & equal representation

• bi-cameral legislature with # of representatives based on population

• unicameral legislature with equal representation

“Be it enacted and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. . . That all persons, as well negroes and mulattoes as others who shall be born within this state, from and after the passing of this act, shall not be deemed and considered as servants for life or slaves; and that all servitude for life or slavery of children in consequence of the slavery of their mothers, in the case of all children born within this state from and after the passing of this act as aforesaid, shall be and hereby is utterly taken away, extinguished and forever abolished.”

Pennsylvania Act, 1780

The law above emerged most directly from the context of which of the following?

• Increased revolts by enslaved people of African descent in northern states

• The abolition of slavery in other major countries, like Britain

• Increased reform efforts by white women to extend the right to vote to black men

• Increased awareness of inequalities in society during and after the American Revolution

“I will allow that bodily strength seems to give man a natural superiority over woman; and this is the only solid basis on which the superiority of the sex can be built. But I still insist that not only virtue but the knowledge of the two sexes should be the same in nature, if not in degree, and that women, considered not only as moral but rational creatures, ought to endeavour to acquire human virtues (or perfections) by the same means as men, instead of being educated like a fanciful kind of half being— one of Rousseau’s wild chimeras.”

-Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792

Wollstonecraft’s remarks in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the following developments during the late-eighteenth-century?

• The end to requiring property qualifications for voting

• The increase in women working in factories

• The growth of the theory of Republican Motherhood

• The expansion of the right to vote for women

“. . .From the numerous avocations to which a professional life exposes gentlemen in America from their families, a principal share of the instruction of children naturally devolves upon the women. It becomes us therefore to prepare them, by a suitable education, for the discharge of this most important duty of mothers. . . . The equal share that every citizen has in liberty and the possible share he may have in the government of our country make it necessary that our ladies should be qualified to a certain degree, by a peculiar and suitable education, to concur in instructing their sons in the principles of liberty and government.”

Benjamin Rush, Thoughts upon Female Education, 1787

The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following?

• Women should hold public office because they were responsible for teaching republican values

• Women should have the right to vote if they become more educated

• Women should be responsible for teaching republican values to their families

• Women should attend college and run universities

“The American Revolution launched an idea of popular sovereignty that, together with the cost of the war, helped to provoke the downfall of the French monarchy. The French Revolution, dramatic as was its influence on the Old World, also became a fundamental event in the New World because it was eventually to challenge slavery as well as royal power.”

Robin Blackburn, historian, “Haiti, Slavery, and the Age of the Democratic Revolution”, William and Mary Quarterly, 2006

According to the passage, which of the following best explains the most important effect that the American Revolution had on France?

• It weakened relations between France and their Indigenous allies in North America

• It helped to inspire the French Revolution

• It caused the French colonies of Haiti and Vietnam to revolt

• It bankrupted France, leading to mass poverty

“Be it enacted and it is hereby enacted by the Representatives of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. . . That all persons, as well negroes and mulattoes as others who shall be born within this state, from and after the passing of this act, shall not be deemed and considered as servants for life or slaves; and that all servitude for life or slavery of children in consequence of the slavery of their mothers, in the case of all children born within this state from and after the passing of this act as aforesaid, shall be and hereby is utterly taken away, extinguished and forever abolished.”

Pennsylvania Act, 1780

A historian would most likely use this passage to illustrate which of the following social changes after the American Revolution?

• A decrease in sectional tensions

• Growing support for the abolition of slavery in northern states

• Weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation

• Growing support for women’s suffrage