The ___________ set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
100
The ____________ for Religious Freedom declared that no person could be forced to attend a particular church or be required to pay a church with tax money.
What is the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom?
100
_______________ is official approval
What is ratification?
100
___________said “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
A ___________ is a period of low economic activity combined with a rise in unemployment.
What is depression?
200
To form a political system for the region Congress passed the ____________. The ordinance established the Northwest Territory, which included areas that are now Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
200
Right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
____________ trade between two or more states.
What is interstate commerce?
200
________ ________ __________ following are considered political influences to American government:
What is Magna Carta- English Bill of Rights and Enlightenment Thinkers?
200
____________ led hundreds of men in a forced shutdown of the Supreme Court in Springfield, MA.
Who is Daniel Shays?
300
Why was Congress under the Articles of Confederation unable to enforce the Treaty of Paris?
What is the Articles did not provide Congress with an army to force the British out of the Northwest?
300
___________________ A document signed by king John, which made the King subject to law.
What is the Magna Carta?
300
___________ occurs when there are increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value for money.
What is inflation?
300
Baron de Montesquieu was an Enlightenment philosopher who supported the idea of:
What is liberty could be protected by separating government powers.
300
A philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to examine old ideas and traditions.
What is Enlightenment?
400
In 1784 when Spanish officials closed the lower Mississippi River to U.S. shipping, _________ and ________ were furious because they used the Mississippi to send goods to eastern and foreign markets.
What is Western farmers and merchants?
400
_______________ believed that a social contract existed between political rulers and the people they ruled.
Who is John Locke?
400
Shays’s Rebellion in the fall and winter of 1786-1787 was a result of:
What is a depression and the refusal of the Massachusetts legislature to issue paper money for debt relief.
400
Under the Articles Congress could tax the states.
What is false?
400
John Locke believed that a ____________ existed between political rulers and the people they ruled.
What is a social contract?
500
Prior to the ratification of the Articles, which state refused to ratify?
What is Maryland?
500
Under the ___________ Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers in order to protect the liberties of the people.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
In the mid-1780s the United States attempted to negotiate a treaty with Spain that would
What is open the Mississippi River for trade?
500
Taxes on imports or exports.
What is a tariff?
500
The colonies had been run since 1781 under a document called: