A) He thought they would be needed to protect individuals from aggressive state governments like Massachusetts.
B) He advocated them at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
C) He refused to acknowledge their ratification in the Constitution.
D) He believed they were redundant and that the original Constitution would protect liberties.
E) He tried to block their passage as amendments.
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A) that land distribution policies were out of date.
B) that controversies over the emancipation of slaves could turn violent.
C) that Congress's attempts to pass pro-debtor laws were unpopular with farmers.
D) the need for a stronger central government.
E) the chaotic nature of Indian policy after the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
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A) an Anti-Federalist
B) Treaty of Greenville
C) Notes on the State of Virginia
D) Letters from an American Farmer
E) led uprising of Massachusetts farmers
F) Agrippa
G) willed his slaves to be freed upon the death of his wife
H) defeated by Little Turtle
I) served as a diplomat to England and was unable to attend the Constitutional Convention
J) author of most of The Federalist essays
K) father of the Constitution
L) Secretary of War
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A) They shared their British predecessors' fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans.
B) They viewed them as the start of a brigade that was going to spread American values and virtues across the continent.
C) They hated them enough to pass laws banning their movement-much like the British Proclamation of 1763-but the settlers ignored them.
D) Benjamin Franklin advocated movement westward, but Thomas Jefferson fought him on it.
E) They expressed no views that historians have been able to find.
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A) Great Britain agreed to remove its remaining forts from U.S. soil.
B) twelve Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio to the federal government.
C) the U.S. government allowed Indians to petition for citizenship.
D) the federal government forbade American settlement west of the Mississippi.
E) the United States recognized Great Britain's claim to what is now Ontario.
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A) If the Constitution was not ratified, the United States would lose trade to Canada.
B) The new Constitution would not be powerful enough to unite all thirteen states.
C) If the Constitution was not ratified, the United States would be picked on by Spain.
D) Without the Constitution, the United States would not survive as a nation.
E) Under the Constitution, a citizen would lose basic civil liberties.
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A) an Anti-Federalist
B) Treaty of Greenville
C) Notes on the State of Virginia
D) Letters from an American Farmer
E) led uprising of Massachusetts farmers
F) Agrippa
G) willed his slaves to be freed upon the death of his wife
H) defeated by Little Turtle
I) served as a diplomat to England and was unable to attend the Constitutional Convention
J) author of most of The Federalist essays
K) father of the Constitution
L) Secretary of War
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A) annuity system
B) unicameral system
C) first written American constitution
D) abolished in 1808
E) two houses based on proportional representation
F) separation of powers
G) division of powers
H) essays that generated support for Constitutional ratification
I) amendments
J) citizenship limited to whites only
K) slave compromise
L) ruled slavery unlawful in England
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A) Atlantic Ocean.
B) Chesapeake Bay.
C) St. Lawrence River.
D) Pacific Ocean.
E) Great Lakes.
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A) The belief that America would become more urban.
B) The idea that blacks and Indians should be granted citizenship.
C) The fear that a strong central government would trample on liberties.
D) The idea that merchants and business leaders would have their economic power decreased.
E) Their opposition to the Bill of Rights.
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A) annuity system
B) unicameral system
C) first written American constitution
D) abolished in 1808
E) two houses based on proportional representation
F) separation of powers
G) division of powers
H) essays that generated support for Constitutional ratification
I) amendments
J) citizenship limited to whites only
K) slave compromise
L) ruled slavery unlawful in England
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A) established the policy to admit the area's population as equal members of the political system.
B) regulated western land sales through a policy that was amicable to the Indians.
C) abolished the Articles of Confederation and called for a second Constitutional Convention.
D) was the first step in Alexander Hamilton's plan for economic growth.
E) declared all Indian land to be the possession of the U.S. government.
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A) should eventually be able to enjoy their natural rights, but they would have to leave the United States to do so.
B) who were held in slavery should be emancipated immediately and that every former slave family should be given a forty-acre farm in a western territory.
C) should, if legally free, be allowed to marry white persons.
D) like Indians, were naturally as intelligent as whites.
E) should all be held in slavery because, like Indians, they were clearly inferior to persons of European descent.
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A) an Anti-Federalist
B) Treaty of Greenville
C) Notes on the State of Virginia
D) Letters from an American Farmer
E) led uprising of Massachusetts farmers
F) Agrippa
G) willed his slaves to be freed upon the death of his wife
H) defeated by Little Turtle
I) served as a diplomat to England and was unable to attend the Constitutional Convention
J) author of most of The Federalist essays
K) father of the Constitution
L) Secretary of War
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