ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
SHAYS’S REBELLION
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
NJ PLAN & VA PLAN
GREAT COMPROMISE
100
The Articles were adopted by what gathering of American delegates?
the Second Continental Congress
100
How many men died in the rebellion?
8
100
How was the issue of slavery handled under the Northwest Ordinance?
slavery was banned
100
The Congress belongs to which branch of government?
legislative
100
Where was Roger Sherman from?
Connecticut
200
Why did Americans distrust a strong central, or federal, government?
they had been mistreated by the king of England
200
Where did Daniel Shays and the other rebels live?
Massachusetts
200
How many people were needed for a territory to apply for statehood?
60,000
200
Each plan called for how many branches of government?
three
200
Who proposed the plan for the Great Compromise?
Roger Sherman
300
The first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, had only one branch of government called what?
Congress
300
Shays’s Rebellion finally ended when the local militia was called in to stop it. Why wasn’t the U.S. Army sent in to stop the rebellion?
the Articles of Confederation did not allow Congress to tax, so the gov’t could not raise $$$ to pay for an army
300
What 5 territories made up the Northwest Territories?
WI, IL, OH, IN, & MI
300
Each plan called for how many houses of Congress?
two houses
300
In the Senate, how is a state’s number of senators determined?
each state has 2
400
Most citizens in the early US thought of themselves as citizens of what, rather than the federal, or central, government?
the states
400
What had been happening to some of the farmers who could not pay their debts?
they were being put in jail
400
Where did the lands come from that the Ordinance divide up?
the lands were part of the Treaty of Paris that the US won from Britain
400
How did the New Jersey Plan give more representatives to “small” states than “large states”?
the NJ Plan called for # of reps to be equal among all states
400
In the House of Representatives, how is a state’s number of representatives decided?
population of the state
500
Under the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Government was weak at left most of the power to what?
the states
500
Why had many farmers not been paid for their service in the Revolutionary War?
the Articles of Confederation did not allow Congress to tax, so the gov’t could not raise $$$
500
What was the purpose of the Northwest Ordinance?
to divide up new lands into smaller territories and townships; to prepare the territories to become states
500
How did the Virginia Plan give more representatives to “large” states than “small” states?
the VA Plan called for # of representatives based on population
500
How many houses of Congress were made in the Great Compromise? Name each house.
two; House of Representatives, the Senate
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