APUSH: Chapter 9 RQ

The ideal of "republican motherhood" that emerged from the American Revolution held that

• a. women should be rewarded politically for having helped establish the American republic
• b. women had a special responsibility to cultivate the "civic virtues" of republicanism in their children
• c. the government should establish social services to help mothers raise their children
• d. mothers should be granted full political and economic rights in the American republic

One way that American independence actually harmed the nation's economic fortunes was by

• a. ending British trade and investments in america
• b. abolishing the stable currency systems that had existed under the empire
• c. cutting off american trade with the British empire
• d. weakening the manufacturing efforts begun under the British

The Great Compromise finally agreed to by the constitutional convention provided that

• A. The house of representatives would be elected by the people and the Senate by the state legislators
• B. The large states would be taxed on the basis of population in the small states on the basis of territory
• C. They would be separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government
• D. There would be representation by population in the House of Representatives but equal representation of all states in the Senate

Continental Army officers attempting to form the Society of Cincinnati

• a. were brought to trial for trying to sabotage the civil government
• b. were ridiculed for their lordly pretensions
• c. were trying to force the Congress to pay them their pensions
• d. reflected the Revolutionary War generation's spirit of equality
• e. represented the best of the officer corps

The Founding Fathers failed to eliminate slavery because

• a. they didn't truly believe in democracy
• b. a fight over slavery might destroy the national unity
• c. they were more concerned with securing equality for women
• d. the North, as its industry expanded, began to rely more heavily on slave labor
• e. economic conditions would not allow such a loss

The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to

• a. organize development of the western lands
• b. deal with foreign affairs
• c. apportion state representation equally
• d. enforce a tax collection program
• e. establish a postal service

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• a. provided for the survey and sale of public lands in the Old Northwest
• b. established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory
• c. banned slavery from all territories of the United States
• d. cleared the way for ratification of the Articles of Confederation
• e. gave control over land to the territories in which they were located

One of the most farsighted provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• a. set aside a section of each township for education
• b. abolished slavery in all of the United States
• c. prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest
• d. kept power in the national government
• e. none of the above

The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided for all of the following EXCEPT

• a. money from land sales should be used to pay off the national debt
• b. the land should be surveyed before its sale
• c. the territory should be divided into townships six miles square
• d. the sixteenth section should be sold to support education
• e. prohibiting slavery

Shay's Rebellion was provoked by

• a. fear the the Articles of Confederation had created too strong a national government for the United States
• b. efforts by wealthy merchants to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution
• c. a quarrel over the boundary between Massachusetts and Vermont
• d. foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers
• e. the government's failure to pay bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans