Exam 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

Until the Twelfth Amendment was adopted,the Constitution provided for the candidate receiving the second highest number of electoral votes to become vice president.

Who among the following was one of the authors of The Federalist Papers?

Hamilton favored both a tariff on imports and a federal excise tax.

In the 1780s,American manufacturers wanted to replace the various state tariffs with a uniformly high national duty.

In the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,it was asserted that

The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

The delegates who drafted the new Constitution were products of the American Revolution but had lost their fears of concentrated power.

James Madison decided that sovereignty ultimately resided with ________.

A number of major compromises were made at the Philadelphia convention.Discuss three of them in detail.

After the election of 1800,the ________ branch of government was the only branch controlled by the Federalists.

Thomas Jefferson promoted a vision of a(n)________ republic.

The achievement of the "Great Compromise" of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was its resolution of the problem regarding

In the first national elections in 1789,

The new Constitution banned the slave trade,but it did not ban slavery.

The Constitution was submitted to the states for ratification with the Bill of Rights.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 recommended the document be ratified by

What steps did Hamilton take to strengthen the federal government?

Ratification of the Constitution was given a big boost when New York and Virginia both approved the document early in the ratification process.

Federalists controlled the new government under the Constitution for its first

James Madison's ideas regarding republican government