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Chapter 7 Summative Quiz

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1. What issue enraged officers from the Continental Army at war’s end in 1783?

The existence of a strong central government

The lack of compensation for their efforts

The unwillingness of northern artisans to serve in local militias

The lack of guaranteed political appointments in the new government

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2. What form of payment did states offer to military veterans of the Revolutionary War?

Paper currency

Silver and gold

Credit

Land

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3. What was the only religious group to oppose slavery during the colonial period?

Anglicans

Quakers

Methodists

Jews

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4. What state granted women the right to vote during the early republic?

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

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5. Whose attitude toward the Constitution was reflected in the press?

Ordinary people, who feared a strong central government

The urban elite who owned these publications that supported the Constitution

Loyalists, who rejected American nationhood entirely

Both Federalists and Anti-Federalists

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6. The purpose of the Bill of Rights, passed in 1791, was to

protect the rights of Native Americans under the new central government.

abolish slavery, racism, and discrimination toward African Americans.

protect the legislative branch from a tyrannical president.

protect states and individuals from the powerful central government.

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7. What was Hamilton’s goal in passing tariffs on furniture, tobacco, upholstery, hat-making, and shoemaking?

To generate income for the Treasury

To support local industry

To discourage imports of goods

To exert his authority

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8. What event in Philadelphia in 1793 caused government operations to grind to a halt?

The Whiskey Rebellion

A visit by French diplomat Edmond Genet

The Jay Treaty

Yellow fever

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9. What made the government’s response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 so different from its response to Shays’s Rebellion in 1787?

The federal government used the army to quash Shays’s Rebellion.

The federal government used the army to quash the Whiskey Rebellion.

The leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion were executed.

War was officially declared during the Whiskey Rebellion.

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10. The 1790 Indian Trade and Intercourse Act was enacted to

prevent Indians from having communication with Americans.

tax all materials sold to Americans by Indians.

ensure equitable dealings between Indians and whites.

exclude France and Spain from trading with Indians.

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11. The election of 1796 was notable because it was the first

to pit candidates of opposing factions against each other.

not won by George Washington.

in which slave men over the age of 18 were allowed to vote.

time the Electoral College was used to choose a president.

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12. The Alien Act of 1798 granted the president the right to

deport citizens born abroad.

restrict the number of immigrants allowed into the country.

imprison or deport noncitizens.

execute foreign nationals for treason.