APUSH Unit 3 Practice Test

The founding fathers failed to eliminate slavery because:

• they did not truly believe in democracy

• a fight over slavery might destroy national unity

• they were concerned with securing equality for women

• the North, as its industry expanded, began to rely more heavily on slave labor.

• economic conditions would not allow such a loss

One reason that the United states avoided frightful excesses of the French revolution is that

• america declared martial law until the constitution was enacted in 1789

• the American Revolution suddenly overturned the entire political framework.

• cheap land was easily available.

• political democracy preceded economic democracy.

• a strong sense of class consciousness already existed.

The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to

• organize development of the western lands.

• deal with foreign affairs.

• apportion state representation equally.

• enforce a tax collection program.

• establish a postal service.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• provided for the survey and sale of public lands in the Old Northwest.

• established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory.

• banned slavery from all territories of the United States.

• cleared the way for ratification of the Articles of Confederation.

• gave control over land to the territories in which they were located.

Match each nation on the left with the correct description of the problem it presented for

U.S. foreign relations following the Revolutionary War.

A. Britain 1. threatened American commerce in the Mediterranean

B. France 2. demanded repayment of wartime loans

C. Spain 3. occupied a chain of trading forts in the Old Northwest

D. Barbary Coast 4. controlled important trade routes from the interior of North America

• A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4

• A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3

• A-2, B-2, C-3, D-4

• A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1

• A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3

Shays's Rebellion was provoked by

• fear that the Articles of Confederation had created too strong a national government for the United States.

• efforts by wealthy merchants to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution.

• a quarrel over the boundary between Massachusetts and Vermont.

• foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers.

• the government's failure to pay bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.

Most of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention could best be labeled

• A) states' rightists.

• antifederalists

• nationalists

• ordinary citizens.

• counter revolutionaries.

Which of the following is a compromise in the Constitution?

• counting all slaves in apportioning membership in the House

• continuation of the foreign slave trade

• direct election of the president

• control of interstate commerce by the national government

• prohibiting states from abolishing slave trade

The antifederalist camp included all of the following groups except

• supporters of a strong central authority.

• states' rights supporters.

• backcountry dwellers.

• paper money advocates.

• debtors.

Among other views, The Federalist, written during the ratification debate, argued that it was

• impossible to safeguard the rights of states from the power of a strong central government.

• possible to extend a republican form of government over a large territory.

• inevitable that slavery would be abolished in the new republic.

• illegal to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution.

• best to establish a direct democracy.