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The Early Republic
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 1)
At the time of the American Revolution, the institution of slavery
was firmly established in the American colonies. It was most
important in the five southern states from Maryland to Georgia, but
the total of a half million slaves were spread out through all of
the colonies. What percentage of the southern
population at the end of the American Revolution was slaves?
2) There was a compromise between Southern and Northern states
reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which
three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for
enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and
the apportionment of the members of the United States House of
Representatives. What was the composites known as?
Three-Fifths Compromise
Voter-Rights Act of 1787
Wilson-Sherman Act
Washington Compromise
3) What state did James Wilson
represent during the United States Constitutional Convention of
1787?
- Delaware
- Maine
- Pennsylvania
- Virginia
4) What state did Roger Sherman
represent during the United States Constitutional Convention of
1787?
- Connecticut
- New Jersey
- New York
- South Carolina
5) The Federal ratio compromise is found in
Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States
Constitution.
6) The compromise ratio was not a new concept.
It originated with a 1783 amendment proposed to the Articles of
Settlement.
7) A small antislavery movement had some
impact in the 1780s and by the late 1780s all of the states except
for Georgia had placed some restrictions on their participation in
slave trafficking. Still, no serious national political movement
against slavery developed, largely due to the overriding concern
over achieving national unity. Who was the group the
led in this early antislavery movement?
- Church of England
- Mormons
- Sothern Baptist
- Quakers
8) It was a slave trade law passed by the
United States Congress that limited American involvement in the
trade of human cargo. This was the first of several acts of
Congress that eventually stopped the importation of slaves to the
United States. When did the law become effective?
- March 22, 1790
- March 22, 1792
- March 22, 1794
- March 22, 1796
9) On August 5, 1797, A resident, of
Providence, Rhode Island, was tried in federal court as the first
American to be tried under the 1794 law. He was convicted
and was forced to forfeit his ship Hope. Who was the
resident of Providence, Rhode Island?
- John Brown
- Thomas Jackson
- James Brown Stuart
- Morgan Washington
10) In the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, Congress
(still under the Articles of Confederation) barred slavery from
the Mid-Western territory north of the Ohio River, but when the
U.S. Congress organized the southern territories acquired through
the Louisiana Purchase (1804), the ban on slavery was omitted.
11) The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
is a United States federal law that stated, in accordance with the
Constitution of the United States, that no new slaves were
permitted to be imported into the United States. This act
effectively ended the legal transatlantic slave trade.
What is the effective date of the act?
- January 1, 1808
- July 4, 1808
- January 1, 1812
- July 4, 1814
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