US History Ch.6

Question 0

What a the 3 parts to a government?

Answer 0

Legislature, courts(judicial), and executive.

Question 1

Why was it more important to create the states first?

Answer 1

The state government affected the lives of the people more than the central government.

Question 2

What did each part of government do?

Answer 2

Legislature- proposed laws and decided whether to pass laws or not
Courts- enforced law
Executive- carried out the laws

Question 3

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 3

A lists of what the government could not do and liberties that people could not be deprived of

Question 4

What is depression?

Answer 4

Economic downturns

Question 5

Why did the US not place tariffs on the goods the British were dumping on them?

Answer 5

The Articles of Confederation would not allow them to tax.

Question 6

What were continental dollars and why did it fall in value?

Answer 6

These dollars were paper money. People had no confidence in them.

Question 7

What was the preferred currency?

Answer 7

Gold and silver hard coins

Question 8

How does inflation happen?

Answer 8

Prices rise do to the continuing rising amount of money in people’s pockets without supply increase

Question 9

What was the first case in which law was deemed unconstitutional?

Answer 9

Trevett vs. Weeden

Question 10

______ lead Shay’s Rebellion do to the taxes that were hurting the farmers and their lands. ( Massachusetts was bound to raise taxes and land was seized from you if you couldn’t pay)

Answer 10

Daniel Shays

Question 11

What were the issues that America faced after they declared independence?

Answer 11

States lacked armies, states had no experience working together, and they had no stable economy.

Question 12

How did Shays’ Rebellion change people’s opinions of the articles?

Answer 12

They now believed that government could not maintain order in the land.

Question 13

What common to all constitutions?

Answer 13

People were establishing the rules by which political life was to be organized and run.

Question 14

The constitutions failed to do what?

Answer 14

Do away slavery

Question 15

Why did the movement to free slaves take hold after the revolution?

Answer 15

High maintaining slavery, and the Declaration declared freedom.

Question 16

Rather than a king, the Americans on whom to carry out the functions of head of state and executive leader of country?

Answer 16

Committee of congress

Question 17

What did the British enforce on the Americans since they were now viewed as foreign nation?

Answer 17

Navigation acts

Question 18

What were three of the greatest achievements of the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 18

England recognized the US as a country.
The British removed their army from the US.
Americans stopped taking land from British Loyalists.

Question 19

How many men were needed in a territory before they could vote for their own legislature?

Answer 19

5,000

Question 20

How many men were needed in a territory before they could draft a state constitution?

Answer 20

60,000

Question 21

Which states were formed from the Northwest Ordinance?

Answer 21

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin

Question 22

What were the three main ideas that influenced our government?

Answer 22

1215 Magna Carta, the Enlightenment, and the Mayflower Compact

Question 23

Explain each idea that influenced our government.

Answer 23

1215 Magna Carta- limited the power of the king
Mayflower Compact- people are the ultimate source of authority
Enlightenment- government based on the consent of the governed

Question 24

What did each state have to write?

Answer 24

Their own constitution

Question 25

What was each constitution?

Answer 25

A democracy

Question 26

What was our first form of central government?

Answer 26

The Second Continental Congress

Question 27

What was our first constitution?

Answer 27

The Articles of Confederation

Question 28

What did the Land Ordinance of 1785 establish?

Answer 28

A method of selling land

Question 29

What section of the Land Ordinance of 1785 funded the schools?

Answer 29

The 16th section

Question 30

What did the Land Ordinance of 1787 call the colonies?

Answer 30

Territories

Question 31

What is a republic?

Answer 31

The power must lie in representatives voted by the people.

Question 32

Who were hurt by the Navigation Acts?

Answer 32

Merchants and ship builders

Question 33

What did the British do after the war?

Answer 33

They dumped their good on America (sold their goods and supplies in America)

Question 34

What was another problem with continental dollars?

Answer 34

They were made if paper so it was a hard time to believe it was worth something and people could illegally counterfeit the money

Question 35

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 35

It made sure Americans sold their good in the “right” places.

Question 36

What did most states have?

Answer 36

A Bill of Rights

Question 36

Who had to sign the Bill of Rights?

Answer 36

William of Orange

Question 36

What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 36

The government could not:

• regulate trade
• tax the people
• 9/13 states had to approve a law
• printing money
• all land west was given to the central government because if land disputes

Question 36

What did the Articles of Confederation call the 13 colonies?

Answer 36

“League of Fellowship”

Question 37

Who did congress send to negotiate peace?

Answer 37

John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens