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Question

1. Which of the following complaints was NOT included as a rationale for independence in the Declaration of Independence?

a. The king sent a large number of foreign mercenaries to oppress the colonists.

b. Making judges dependent on the crown, by being solely responsible for their appointments and salaries

c. The king threatened to abolish slavery in the colonies.

d. Dissolving colonial legislatures when the king disliked their stances on disputes between colonists and the crown.

2. Why did southern states want slavery to be legal AND allow slaves to be counted as people?

a. Southern states wanted to maximize their representation in the House of Representatives.

b. Southern states proposed a compromise that slaves would be treated as three-fifths of a person in order to keep slavery legal.

c. Southern states grudgingly accepted a compromise that the slaves would also count as people towards representation in the House of Representatives.

3. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson famously stated that "all men are created equal." What else is in the Declaration that leads some scholars to doubt that Jefferson believed it to be true at the time?

a. Dehumanizing language about indigenous people and people of African descent.

b. Criticism of King George III for inciting slave revolts and for enabling slave markets to stay open.

c. Explicit statements about the political rights of men with property.

d. Criticism of King George III for inciting slave revolts and dehumanizing language about indigenous people.

4. Which sentence does not accurately describe the political context of the Declaration of Independence when it was published in July 1776?

a. Fighting between the colonists and British troops sent to America had already commenced and the British Navy blockaded many American ports

b. Efforts to mediate the disputes between King George, Westminster and the colonists without a declaration of independence or war continued and war would only begin after the declaration was signed.

c. Although slavery existed everywhere in the colonies, there was already efforts underway to abolish slavery.

d. Several states had either declared independence from Britain or were in the process of declaring their independence.

5. Which philosopher promoted the idea that citizens delegate authority to their agents in government with the understanding that they can rescind such authority if it was abused?

a. John Locke

b. Baron de Montesquieu

c. Thomas Hobbes

d. David Hume

6. True or False: Trade between states decreased as a result of import taxes and other restrictions after the Revolutionary War

a. False

b. True

7. When did the U.S. courts get the authority to overturn federal laws and executive actions?

a. The courts got the power to overturn laws and executive actions in the original Constitution.

b. The courts got the power to overturn laws and executive actions after the case, Marbury v. Madison (1803).

c. The courts got the power to overturn laws and executive actions in the Articles of Confederation.

d. The courts got the power to overturn laws and executive actions through amendments to the Constitution.

8. Roughly how much time passed between Congress passing [what became] the 27th Amendment to the Constitution and its ratification by three-fourths of the states?

a. 2 year

b. 10 years

c. 20 years

d. 200 years

9. Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution in the late 18th Century?

a. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as part of the effort to persuade every state to ratify the new Constitution.

b. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in response to the French "Rights of Man."

c. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as part of a compromise between delegates at the Constitutional Convention.

10. Which of the following statements best describes why most Anti-Federalists likely opposed ratification of the Constitution?

a. Most Anti-Federalists opposed ratification over concerns that the Constitution failed to curb slavery.

b. Most Anti-Federalists opposed ratification over concerns about payment of large public debts from the American Revolution.

c. Most Anti-Federalists opposed ratification over concerns about concentrating too much power into a single government.

d. Most Anti-Federalists opposed ratification over concerns that the new federal government would not be able to move decisively against foreign threats or domestic disturbances like Shay's Rebellion.