| Term | Definition |
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| Philadelphia Quakers | The world's first anti-slavery society was founded by the... |
| the fledgling idealism of the Founding Fathers was sacrificed to political expediency. a fight over slavery would be bad | The Founding Fathers failed to eliminate slavery because... |
| worse of financially at the end of the shooting than at the start | The economic status of the average American at the end of the Revolutionary War was... |
| Regulate commerce or enforce its tax-collection program | The Articles of Confederation left Congress unable to... |
| were openly unfriendly to the new republic | After the Revolutionary War, both Britain and Spain... |
| the fact that impoverished back country farmers, many of them Revolutionary War veterans | Shay's Rebellion was provoked by... |
| "for the sole and express purpose of" revising the Articles of Confederation. IT WAS NOT TO MAKE THE CONSTITUTION | The Constitutional Convention was called to... |
| Alexander Hamilton. The rest were in France or something. | Which famous Founding Fatehr was present at the Constitutional Convention? |
| James Madison | Which convention delegate was called the "father of the Constitution"? |
| REpresentation in both houses of a bicamaeral Congress should be based on population. | The 'large-estate' plan put forward at the Convention was based on what? |
| The larger states were conceded representation by population in the House of Representatoves and the smaller states were appeased by equal representation in the Senate | The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention worked out an acceptable plan for what? |
| Electoral College | Under the Constitution, the president of hte United States was to be elected by a majority vote of the |
| "three-fifths compromise" | The Constitutional Convention addressed the North-South controversy over slavery through the |
| Yes | Was the continuation of the foreign slave trade a Constitutional compromise? |
| House of Representatives | The one branch of the government elected directly by the people is the... |
| cabinet | The new constitution did no provide for the creation of a(n)... |
| draw up a bill of rights | One of hte first jobs facing the new government formed under the Constitution was to... |
| No | Was the "Right of all Citizens to Vote" guarenteed by the Bill of Rights? |
| wealthier groups | Alexander Hamiltion's Financial program for the economic development of the United States favored... |
| organized oppoisition to the government - especially a democratic government - based on populart consent - seemed tainted with disloyalty. Oppostition to the government affronted the spirit of national unity that the glorious cause of the revolution had inspired. | The Founding Fathers had not envisioned the existence of permanent political parties because they... |
| Pinckney's Treat of 1795 | The United States acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River in... |
| "Permanent and entangling alliances" | What did Washington warn against in his 1796 farewell address? |
| personalities | The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on... |
| Jay's Treaty | Foreign relations between the US and France broke down in the late 1970s over |
| punish and silence federalist opposition | The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to... |
| Freedom of speech and the freedom of the press (First Amendment) | What did the Sedition Act threaten |
| Supreme Court | According to the Federalists, the duty of judging the unconstitutionality of legislation passed by Congress lay with... |
| best people available | Federalists advocated rule by what kind of people |
| more power was in the state government. | Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which.. |
| continuing slavery | Thomas Jefferson argued that a landless class of voters could be avoided in part by |
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