U.S. History 1781 – 1787 Quiz Preparation

It is a formal written plan for government:

constitution

It is a loose association of equal and independent states:

confederation

It is any form of government where people elect their leaders:

republic

This European country still had troops posted on American soil.

They occupied military forts in the region of the Great Lakes:

Great Britain

This European country denied Americans use of the Mississippi River and the port

at New Orleans in the 1780s. In other words, this country denied Americans the

right of deposit in New Orleans:

Spain

Describe economic problems under the Articles of

Confederation:

Each state coined it’s own money.

The U.S. had no national standard for weights and measures.

States began imposing tariffs on one another.

Which event is described below?

Farmers in western Massachusetts were having a difficult time paying state taxes and turned violent. Angry farmers seized courthouses in western Massachusetts to prevent the courts from seizing farms. National leaders worried that the government of the United States could not prevent violent protests.

Shays’ Rebellion

Name all of the states that were, at one time, part of the Northwest Territory:

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, & Wisconsin

Article 6 of this law, passed by the Confederation Congress in 1787, outlawed slavery north of the Ohio River:

The Northwest Ordinance

According to classical liberalism, best found in the writings of John

Locke, what is the role of government?

protect the rights of the people

This plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention proposed that every state, regardless of size,

have equal voting power in Congress:

The New Jersey Plan

The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention divided which branch of the government

into two houses?

Legislative Branch (Congress)

What issue did the “Three-Fifths Compromise” resolve?

Slaves would be counted toward state representation in the House of Representatives

This collection of essays was written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. The essays were meant to explain the Constitution written in 1787 and the essays were

meant to convince states to ratify the new Constitution.

The Federalist Papers