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The purpose of Magna Carta was to
What is require British kings to obey the same laws as the British people
100
As drafted by the Second Continental Congress the Articles of Confederation established the.
What is first national government of the United States?
100
In 1784, officials from this country closed the lower Mississippi, which the United States utilized to ship goods to eastern markets
What is Spain?
100
Daniel Shays and his men protesting
What is high taxes and heavy debts
100
He was the most important figures at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
Who is James Madison?
200
Magna Carta inspired the founders of American government to
What is subject government officials to the rule of law?
200
Congress decide to pass the Land Ordinance of 1785, which divided western lands into townships
What is to pay the nation’s debts?
200
These factors indicated that there was an economic depression in the United States after the Revolutionary War
What is trade activity was minimal and unemployment was on the rise?
200
A weakness in the Articles of Confederation exposed by Shays’s Rebellion
What is the problem of states having more power than the federal government?
200
Women, African Americans, and Native Americans did not take part in the Constitutional Convention
What is they did not have the rights of citizenship?
300
Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom declared that
What is no person could be forced to attend a church or pay taxes to a church?
300
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 affect the practice of slavery in the Northwest Territory
What is it banned the use of slaves?
300
The states contributed to rising inflation following the Revolutionary War by
What is printing large amounts of paper money?
300
Shays’s Rebellion led most Americans to call for a
What is a stronger central government?
300
Under the Virginia Plan the structure of the national government would have been changed by the creation of a/an
What is bicameral legislature in which the number of delegates per state would be based on a states’ population?
400
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was one of the earliest expressions of this basic principle of American government
What is separation of church and state
400
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established this procedure
What is admission of a state into the Union?
400
Interstate commerce is
What is the act of trade between two or more states?
400
The Annapolis Convention of 1786 failed to answer the needs of the nation because
What is many delegates did not attend the convention?
400
The Great Compromise resolved the debate over state representation in the federal government
What is creating a bicameral legislature were representation in the lower house would be based on population and in the upper house it would be equal?
500
Ratification of the Articles of Confederation was slowed down by conflicts over the
What is claims to western lands made by many colonies?
500
The Articles of Confederation made it difficult for Congress to protect the nation against foreign threats by
What is not forcing states to provide soldiers for a national army?
500
The main cause of Shays’s Rebellion was the
What is collection of taxes on land to pay off war debts, which hurt farmers?
500
This was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention held in May 1787 in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall
What is improve the Articles of Confederation?
500
Shays’s Rebellion targeted the Massachusetts Supreme Court
What is the courts were forcing farmers who were in debt to sell off their land?