APUSH Unit 3B Quiz: Constitution & Early Politics

Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after...

• they were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added shortly after ratification

• slavery was allowed to continue without federal interference

• the other states threatened to organize the government without them

• they were assured that the US would permanently ally with France

Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Alexander Hamilton's economic plan primarily because he feared that it would...

• prevent the expansion of slavery to new states

• promote the interests of merchants at the expense of agricultural interests

• lead to heavy taxes on whiskey producers in Pennsylvania

• lead to a military alliance with Great Britain against revolutionary France

The 3/5ths compromise orginally contained in the Constitution referred to the

• rate of which one slave counted toward congressional representation

• proportion of states permitted to practice slavery

• number of African Ameicans who could vote

• number of states abolishing slavery

Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT

• determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights

• establish a balance of power between the three branches of the national government

• create a government that would be satisfactory to both large and small states

• satisfactory to both free and slave states

President George Washington's Farwell Address set a course for the nation by

• calling for the adoption of universal suffrage

• discouraging permanent allainces with foreign nations

• endorsing the economic policies of the Federalists

• endorsing the to party system