Ch. 7 Test Review

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1. What is the AOC?

▪ Articles of Confederation is the first system of government for the United States.

2. List the weaknesses of AOC

▪ A single branch (Legislative)

▪ Cannot tax or raise an army

▪ Did not create a UNITED nation.

▪ Lacked a national currency

3. Why was trade between states hard under AOC?

▪ Each state had its own currency.

4. Rules of the NW Ordinance

▪ Congress appoint a governor for each territory until population reached 5000. Then citizens could vote.

▪ Once population reached 60,000 the territory could write a state constitution and ask Congress to become a state.

▪ No slavery

▪ Provide public education

5. Important trade route Spain closed?

▪ The port of New Orleans

▪ This closed the Mississippi River to American trade.

6. How did Britain take advantage of US lack of defense?

▪ British refused to leave military forts along the Great Lakes.

7. Define Economic Depression

▪ Period when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises.

8. Causes of Shay’s Rebellion?

9. How did national gov’t respond to Shay’s Rebellion?

▪ Called for a national convention to revise the AOC.

10. Father of the Constitution

11. Author of the Great Compromise?

▪ Roger Sherman of Connecticut

12. Components of the Virginia Plan

13. Define: Bicameral

14. Define: Unicameral

▪ One House Legislature

15. Governuor Morris’s role in the Constitution?

▪ Wrote the Preamble to the Constitution.

16. Three-fifths compromise?

17. Political groups that grew out of Constitutional ratification debate?

Federalists Antifederalists

18. How is the Constitution different than the AOC?

▪ The Constitution created a government with THREE branches.

19. Federalist Papers? Authors?

▪ A series of 85 newspaper essays defending the Constitution.

20. Main arguments between Federalists and Antifederalists?