Quiz: pages 264-274

Which of the following is true of how the U.S. government in the 1790s dealt with Native Americans?

• They were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation.

• Since the Constitution viewed Indian tribes as "domestic dependent nations," they were given one non-voting representative in Congress.

• Secretary of War Henry Knox initially pursued policies of extermination toward Native Americans.

• The U.S. government concluded treaties with them to get them to cede (give away) tribal lands.

Under the Treaty of Greenville of 1795

• Great Britain agreed to remove its remaining forts from U.S. soil.

• twelve Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio to the federal government.

• the U.S. government allowed Indians to petition for citizenship.

• the federal government forbade American settlement west of the Mississippi.

Hector St. John Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

• popularized the idea of the United States as a melting pot of ethnicities.

• was a thinly disguised allegory explaining the need for the Constitution.

• made the author so unpopular in the United States that he was forced to return to France.

• argued that America should reject manufacturing and remain an agrarian nation.

During the early years of the republic, African Americans

• were far fewer in number than Native Americans.

• enjoyed none of the rights whites enjoyed.

• made up about 20 percent of the total population.

• were all held as slaves, except for a few free blacks in Massachusetts.

Thomas Jefferson believed that African Americans

• should eventually be able to enjoy their natural rights outside of the United States.

• should be given forty-acre farms in a western territory after obtaining their freedom.

• should, if legally free, be allowed to marry white persons.

• were, like Indians, naturally as intelligent as whites.

The Anti-Federalist James Winthrop argued that a bill of rights was necessary in the Constitution because

• the English had one, so America ought to mirror that example.

• the right to bear arms for the militia should be guarded by law.

• using the examples of Wilkes and Zenger, the protection of speech and press was essential.

• it would protect the minority against the tyranny of the majority.

Which of the following MOST aided the ratification of the Constitution?

• The promise of a bill of rights.

• The idea that the educated elite would run the government.