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12 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following is true of how the U.S. government in the 1790s dealt with Native Americans?
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The U.S. government made treaties with them mainly to transfer land to itself or to the states.
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Which of the following is true regarding Congress and the African slavetrade in the United States under the Constitution?
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Congress prohibited the African slave trade twenty years after ratification of the Constitution.
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The Banner of the Society of Pewterers, one of many artisan groups that took part in the celebrations over the ratification of the Constitution, hails the Constitution as a solid foundation for:
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prosperity and freedom.
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Which of the following is true of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the Appalachians in the 1780s?
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They shared their British predecessors’ fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans.
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Under the Treaty of Greenville of 1795:
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twelve Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.
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Battles over Indian territory continued after ratification of the Constitution.
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True
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The New Jersey Plan proposed a single-house legislature, which gave each state one vote.
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True
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The Constitution explicitly granted Congress the power to do all of the following EXCEPT:
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emancipate slaves-- WERE granted the power to regulate interstate commerce, pass tariffs, issue patents & coin money.
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Anti-Federalists were concerned that the Constitution severely limited liberty
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True
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The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed:
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only free white persons to become citizens-- NOT only Irish, English, and German immigrants to become citizens, everyone except blacks to become citizens, all immigrants to become citizens nor only white men to become citizens.
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In the 1780s, settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky:
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believed they had a right to take possession of western lands and use them as they saw fit.
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The American Philosophical Society in its modest beginnings was called:
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the Junto
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