All of the following are weaknesses of the federal government under the Articles of Confederations EXCEPT
A. Congress couldn’t pay its debts to foreign countries, individual states, or even citizens.
B. Even after the Revolution, it failed to expel British from the western territories.
C. It could not defeat the Indians in the Ohio Valley.
D. It passed the Northwest Ordinance to organized the West and admit new states to the Union.
E. It struggled with debtors grievances such as the Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts.
ANSWER: D

All of the following methods were used to encourage Continental Army discipline and enlistments EXCEPT
A. Raising the number of lashes administered for punishment of unruly soldiers
B. Cash bonuses offered for those men who enlisted for a term of three years
C. Land bounties given to those soldiers who would serve for the duration of the war
D. After the British used the tactic in the South, some black slaves were offered their freedom in exchange for service in Washington's Army
E. George Washington came to rely only on the Continental Army and actually turned away state militias who offered to join the cause
ANSWER: E

Which of the following was NOT a part of the Treaty of Paris in 1783?
A. The Mississippi River would now be the western boundary of the United States
B. Fishing rights of coast of New Foundland were preserved for New England fisherman
C. All prewar transatlantic debts would be considered "null and void"
D. Congress would urge states to return confiscated loyalist property
E. All of these were included in the treaty
ANSWER: C

All of the following terms are related to one another on the topic of government power.  Which one does not belong with the others?
A. Article 1 Section 8 - "necessary and proper"
B. 10th Amendment
C. "elastic clause"
D. loose constructionism
E. desire for a strong federal government
ANSWER: B

Which of the following political parties does not belong in the list below?
A. Republicans
B. Democratic Republicans
C. Federalists
D. Jeffersonian Republicans
E. Democrats
ANSWER: C

All of the following terms, events, and people from the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in the list below belong together on the same side, EXCEPT
A. supremacy of the federal government
B. Thomas Jefferson and strict constructionism
C. 10th Amendment to the Constitution
D. nullification of federal law
E. James Madison and strict interpretation
F. supremacy of states rights
ANSWER: A


All of the following terms, positions, and quotes are related to the "Revolution of 1800" EXCEPT
A. Defense of the Bill of Rights
B. Frugality in spending and lowering the national debt
C. Democratic Republicans control legislative and executive branches
D. Supportive of an urban-based citizenry
E. Pro-French and foreign relations
ANSWER: D

Who said the following “every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.”
A. George Washington at his Farewell Address
B. Thomas Jefferson at is inauguration in 1801
C. John Adams upon passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts
D. Alexander Hamilton in his first report as Secretary of the Treasury
E. James Madison during the War of 1812
ANSWER: B

All of the following are examples of Thomas Jefferson's strict interpretation of the Constitution and his "cleansing" and "downsizing" of the federal government, EXCEPT
A. He replaced incompetent officeholders
B. He reduced the size of the army and navy
C. He repealed the 1798 federal property tax
D. He repealed the Alien and Sedition Acts and issued pardons
E. He purchased the Louisiana Territory from France
ANSWER: E

This chart supports all of the following statements EXCEPT
A. A majority of slaves in 1850, worked in the cotton industry in some form or another.
B. Tobacco, once requiring a major source of slave labor, had declined to needing only 10% of the workforce.
C. Only 1 in 10 (or less) slaves continued to work under the "task system" in the Lowcountry rice farms.
D. Second to the cotton industry, more slaves worked at domestic work than any other category.
E. All of these statements are supported by the data in this chart.
ANSWER: E