Chapter 7 Section 1 test (Stump)

Question 1

1) What is a Document stating the under which government will operate?
2) How many of the states wrote these?
3) Which 2 states did not?

Answer 1

1) Constitutions
2) 11 out of 13
3) Rhode Island and Connecticut

Question 2

1) What is a person who runs the government and sees that the laws are carried out?
2) what title was given to the sate’s highest office, who carried these laws out?

Answer 2

1) executive
2) governer

Question 3

What were the 4 requirements to vote, according to new state constitutions?

Answer 3

White, Male, Over 21, and Property ownership

Question 4

List 4 different examples of INDIVIDUAL rights that these new constitutions protected?

Answer 4

Freedom of religion, Freedom of the press, Trial by Jury, Limits on searches, limited on arrest, no cruel and unusual Punishments.

Question 5

1) What document did the Continental Congress sign during the Revolution to get the states to work together?
2) what could it DO and NOT DO under “limited government?”

Answer 5

1) The Articles of Confederation
2) Do: deal with foreign countries, deal with Native Americans, make laws, declare war, coin or cornrow money, run postal services
Don’t: Collect taxes, Regulate trade

Question 6

What system was devised to set up settlers for land out west Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi River?

Answer 6

The Land Ordinance of 1785

Question 7

1) what 3-step plan did the congress establish for new lands to become new states?
2) What 5 states would eventually come out of the Northwest Territory?

Answer 7

1) choose governor and judges, 5,000 settlers; legislature forms. 60,000 settlers; apply fro statehood
2) Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan

Question 8

List below several problems the 13 states in the following 2 areas

Economic problems and Foreign affairs

Answer 8

Economic problems- sates taxed each others goods, states used different money, congress had no money

Foreign affairs- other countries ignores the U.S.

Question 9

1) What is and Economic Depression?
2) why did Shay’s Rebellion Frighten many leading American?
3) what did they decide to do with thr Articles of Confederation?

Answer 9

1) A time period when business activity slows, prices, and wages drop, and unemployment rises.
2) it focused on the weaknesses and new nations government think a stronger central government was needed.
3) to Revise The Articles of Confederation