Unit 3 Review Case (Standards 8.21-8.28) The New Nation

Which three of the following best identify the significant precedents set by Washington as the nation's first president?

• Judicial Review

• Neutrality in foreign policy

• Two term limit

• Abolished slavery

• Cabinet of advisors

What was the main focus of the founders when trying to form America's first government?

• To make taxes as low as possible

• To keep the nation secure

• To avoid an overly powerful government

• To make state governments very powerful

What is a confederation?

• A group of states bound by a powerful central government

• A military alliance of independent countries

• A group of countries all ruled by the same monarch

• A group of mostly independent states bound by a weak central government

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally...Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought to not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."

Which of the following best identifies the issue in which Washington warns in the passage above? 

• Dangers of political factions (parties)

• Dangers of involvement in foreign affairs/alliances

• Dangers of geographic sectionalism in the young republic

• Dangers of an uneducated public

What was America's first constitution called?

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution of the United States

• The Founding Principles of the United States

• The Articles of American Constitution

What was the major problem with the Articles of Confederation?

• The central government was too powerful and controlling

• The state governments were too weak to solve problems

• The central government was too weak to solve issues facing the country

• The president was given too much power.

Which of the following best describes the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion?

• Demonstrated the weakness of the federal government and calls for change

• Leads to an undeclared and limited conflict with France in the Caribbean Sea

• Demonstrated the power and energy of the new federal government

• Leads to the establishment of judicial review by the supreme court

How many states had to agree before an Article could be amended or changed?

• 9 out of 13 states had to agree

• All 13 states had to agree

• A majority of states had to agree

• 10 out of 13 states had to agree

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION ARTICLE VII:

When land forces are raised by any State for the common defense, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each State respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such State shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the State which first made the appointment.

ACCORDING TO ARTICLE VII, WHAT GROUP PROVIDES SOLDIERS OF AND BELOW THE RANK OF COLONEL?

 

• STATES

• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

VIII.

All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.

The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.

 ACCORDING TO THIS ARTICLE, WHAT LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER TO TAX?

• FEDERAL

• STATE