Articles/Northwest Terr/Shays Quiz

The Land Ordinance of 1785 did what?

Allowed for the surveying and selling of land in the Northwest Territory area

What was the first national constitution for the United States?

Articles of Confederation

Attempting to fix the reason for the War, many state governments created new ___________, lists of rights that the state governments would promise to always protect.

Bill of Rights

Farmers, under ________ revolted after their farms were repossessed by banks after they were unable to _______________.

Daniel Shays; repay their loans after being unable to sell their crops

Who left their home to preside over, or run, the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia? (He was trusted by everyone to keep things honest)

George Washington

The inability to quickly put down this revolt clearly illustrated that:

The Articles of Confederation created a government that was too weak to govern the nation

Why did the founders set up the new government in this manner?

They did NOT want the government to be the same a England's

What did Shays' Rebellion show about the Articles of Confederation?

We needed to make the central government stronger

Why did trade among states decrease immediately following the American Revolution?

all of these are correct

Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government only consisted of a group of ____________ or lawmakers.

legislators

What action did Washington take immediately after the end of the war and the Treaty of Paris?

returned to his farm

Under our first national constitution that ran our government, most of the power was given to the _________________

state government

Why, under the Articles of Confederation, was the federal government unable to force the British out of the Northwest Territory?

under the Articles we had no US military