1. From the section on "Democratizing Freedom," how did different states approach the question of electing a government?
a. All of the thirteen original states shared the same voting laws, and all of the state governments were the same: a legislature with two houses, overseen by a governor.
b. Southern states tended to place more restrictions on voting than northern states, although no states allowed everyone to vote.
c. By the 1780s, in most states, only a small minority of men could vote because of property and tax restrictions.
d. All of the original thirteen states eliminated the position of governor, because they did not want to elect "kings."
e. None of the above are correct.
2. What does the section on "economic freedom" argue?
a. Most Americans agreed that taxation was the opposite of "freedom"; a person who paid taxes to the government was not truly free.
b. Most Americans worried that borrowing money led to "debt slavery," so many states abolished banks and made it illegal to demand that borrowers repay money with interest.
c. Most Americans felt that the United States would not be truly "free" from Great Britain until Americans stopped buying British manufactured goods and trading with British sugar planters in the West Indies.
d. Even after the Revolution, most white Americans worked in "unfree" jobs, like indentured servitude or apprenticeship, that were similar to slavery.
e. None of the above are correct.
3. How did the American Revolution affect the practice of slavery in North America?
a. Thousands of slaves were freed during the war.
b. Slavery became less popular during the war, to the point that some people started freeing their own slaves.
c. Black slaves mostly sided with their white masters during the Revolution, fighting alongside them against the British.
d. After the war, the population of free blacks living in the United States rapidly grew, and its existence created additional pressure on the institution of slavery.
e. None of the above are correct.
4. From the section on "A New Constitution," what were the Founders' goals for the House of Representatives?
a. the Founders wanted to give ordinary voters the chance to directly vote for members of the government while still making it hard for extreme or wacky candidates to get elected.
b. In order to protect against "Caesars" (a popular politician who convinces the people to make him a dictator), the Founders made a rule that no member of the House of Representatives could ever run for President.
c. The Founders wanted to ensure that smaller states, like New Jersey and Rhode Island, had an equal voice in the government with the bigger states, like Virginia and Pennsylvania.
d. The Founders made the House of Representatives particularly important in Presidential elections, giving the Representatives final say if the Presidential election ended in a tie.
e. None of the above are correct.
5. Based on the compromises included in the Constitution, what did the Founders think about slavery?
a. The Founders believed that slavery was critical to the economic health of the United States and sought to protect it for future generations.
b. As a group, the Founders were opposed to slavery, and they tried to make it difficult for Southerners to keep their slaves by making slaveholders ineligible for public office, but they did not abolish slavery outright.
c. Some of the Founders opposed slavery and saw it as an embarassment, and the ones who supported slavery were worried enough about abolition to demand that the Constitution contain special protections for slavery and the political power of slave states.
d. The Constitution made it possible for slaves to escape from bondage by allowing Northern states to declare themselves as "free zones," where the rules of slavery did not apply.
e. None of the above are correct.