History of the Americas Questions
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How many states had to vote in favor of the Constitution in order to put it into effect?
The Great Compromise proposed that in one house of Congress-the House of Representatives-the states would be represented according to size of their...
The Confederation Congress was not given the power to...
Even before independence was declared, Patriot leaders at the Continental Congress realized that the colonies needed to be united under some type of
A plan that proposed scrapping the Articles of Confederation and creating a new national government with the power to make laws binding upon the states and raise money through taxes was called the...
The system created to prevent any one of the three branches of government from becoming too powerful is called
The compromise that stated every five enslaved people in a state would count as three free persons for determining both representation and taxes was called the...
Supporters of the Federalists and the Constitution included large landowners, artisans, farmers who lived near the coast or along rivers that led to the coast, and...
Antifederalists opposed the Constitution because they thought it endangered the independence of the...
Who was an influential nationalist, a member of the Virginia Assembly, and head of its commerce committee?
In an effort to undermine the colonial economy and hurt the rebellion in the South, the British army freed thousands of
Beginning in 1785, seven states began issuing...
Some Loyalists went to England or the British West Indies after the Revolutionary War, but most moved to British North America, and particularly to the region near Niagara Falls, New Brunswick, and
What did the Federalists promise to add to the Constitution after ratification?
Opposition to slavery had been growing steadily even before the Revolution, especially in the northern and middle states, where it had long been condemned by Baptists, Methodists, and...
Parliament had imposed many taxes on trade, but what was the first direct tax Britain had ever placed on the colonists?
On September 5, 1774, in Philadelphia, a colonial congress was coordinated by the committees of correspondence and called the...
A major dispute with Spain involved the border between Spanish territory and the state of...
On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led approximately 2,400 men across the icy
To assist customs officers in arresting smugglers, the Revenue Act legalized the use of general search warrants called?