WorksheetsDC US 10- Period 3B Exam
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Worksheet time: 8mins
Among the important social changes brought about by the American Revolution was
the increasing separation of church and state and the abolition of aristocrative titles
full equality and voting rights for women and female suffrage
an army where the soldiers elected their own officers based on their skills
a strong movement toward equality of property among men and women
Despite the Revolution’s emphasis on human rights and equality, the Founding Fathers failed to abolish slavery because
they saw it as necessary to maintain American power.
they feared black rebellion if slavery were removed.
of their fear that a fight over slavery would destroy fragile national unity.
almost none of them believed that slavery was wrong.
The ideal of republican motherhood that emerged from the American Revolution held that
women had a special responsibility to cultivate the civic virtues of republicanism in their children.
the government should establish social services to help mothers raise their children.
mothers should be granted full political and economic rights in the American republic.
mothers had a responsibility to teach principles of equality to their daughters as well as sons.
The fundamental difference between ordinary laws and a constitution that emerged from the American Revolution was that ordinary laws
described specific illegal acts, while a constitution granted positive rights.
addressed economic questions, while a constitution addressed the distribution of political power.
applied to the states; a constitution was a document of the federal government.
could be passed and repealed by legislatures, while a constitution was a fundamental law ratified by the people and superior to all legislation.
Attempts to establish strong governments after the Revolutionary War in America were seriously difficult because of the
lack of strong leadership available in the new nation.
hostility of the clergy toward the idea of separation of church and state.
revolutionary ideas preached natural rights and citizens became skeptical of all governmental authority.
fear that a strong government would suppress economic development.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided that
the states should keep permanent control of their western lands.
money from the sale of western lands should be used to promote manufacturing.
the Old Northwest states should have permanent access to the Great Lakes water.
after sufficient population growth, western territories could be organized and then join the union as states.
The Federalist Papers
A book of essays by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay that helped sway critical support for the Constitution in New York
Legislation that provided for the orderly transformation of western territories into states
A book that failed to block the central government they feared but did force the promise of a bill of rights
An exclusive order of military officers that aroused strong democratic opposition
A key addition to the new federal government that had been demanded by many critics of the Constitution and others in the ratifying states was
a cabinet to advise the president.
a written bill of rights to guarantee liberty.
a supreme court.
The influential Founder and member of Congress who personally wrote the Bill of Rights was
George Washington.
Thomas Jefferson.
James Madison.
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton’s first financial policies were intended to
fund the national debt and to have the federal government assume the debts owed by the states.
finance the new government through the sale of western lands.
repudiate the debts accumulated by the government of the Articles of Confederation.
insure that low federal taxes would spur economic growth.
Regarding the French Revolution, most Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans believed that
even the extreme violence of the Reign of Terror was regrettable but necessary.
the Revolution should be supported by American military aid if necessary.
the French Revolution represented a complete distortion of American Revolutionary ideals of liberty.
its political goals were valid but its atheistic attack on Christianity was unjustified.
President Washington’s foreign policy rested on the firm conviction that
the United States was too militarily weak and political disunited to become involved in European wars.
America ought to enter the French-British war only if its own republican ideals were at stake.
the United States could enhance its power by mediating between warring Britain and France.
there should be an end to European colonialism in the Americas.
The United States became involved in an undeclared war with France in 1797 because of
fierce American opposition to the concessions of Jay’s Treaty.
France’s refusal to sell New Orleans and Louisiana.
French interference with American shipping and freedom of the seas.
American anger at attempted French bribery of American diplomats in the XYZ Affair.
The Federalists essentially believed that
most governmental power should be retained by the states or by the people themselves.
the United States should have a powerful central government controlled by the wealthy and well educated.
the federal government should provide no special aid to private business.
the common people could, if educated, participate in government affairs.
Which of the following was NOT a precedent set by George Washington?
No political parties
Presidential Cabinet
Stay out of foreign affairs
The Department of Education
