unit 5a

Question 0

What were the boundaries that the treaty of Paris set?

Answer 0

North-Canada
East-Atlantic Ocean
South-Spanish Florida
West-Mississippi River

Question 1

What established the boundaries for the new United States after the revolutionary war?

Answer 1

The treaty of Paris of 1783

Question 2

What word means a two house legislature?

Answer 2

Bicameral

Question 3

What basic term means a plan of government?

Answer 3

Constitution

Question 4

Under the articles of Confederation what was the name of the only part of the national government?

Answer 4

Congress

Question 5

Name two pros under the articles of Confederation.

Answer 5

Established the U.S as a republic

Created a Congress

Question 6

What was the main problem with the articles of Confederation?

Answer 6

Too much power to the states

Question 7

What was the name of the new land acquired by the US after the Revolutionary war which was divided and sold to Americans to help the US get out of debt?

Answer 7

Northwest territory

Question 8

What were the boundaries of the northwest territory?

Answer 8

West-Mississippi River
South-Ohio River
North- 4 of the Great Lakes

Question 9

What five states did the northwest territory eventually become?

Answer 9

Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan

Question 10

What was the government regulation which set a plan for surveying and selling the new lands of the United States?

Answer 10

Land Ordinance of 1785

Question 11

What was the government regulation which established rules for territories to become states to enter the union?

Answer 11

Northwest Ordinance

Question 12

What event occurred because people in Massachusetts where unhappy that farmers were being placed in prison for nonpayment of debts?

Answer 12

Shays’ Rebellion

Question 13

What name is given to the meeting of delegates in Philadelphia in May 1787 to create a new plan for government?

Answer 13

Constitutional convention

Question 14

What is the term used to describe the delegates who made the US Constitution?

Answer 14

Founding fathers

Question 15

Who was chosen to be president of the constitutional convention?

Answer 15

George Washington

Question 16

Who is considered the “father of the Constitution? “Why?

Answer 16

James Madison, because most of the ideas were his

Question 17

The delegates decided the US should be a republic define this term.

Answer 17

A type of government in which the people (voters) choose (elect) representatives to make laws

Question 18

The delegates agreed upon three branches of government. Name them and the job of each.

Answer 18

Legislative branch-make laws
Executive branch-enforce the laws
Judicial branch-interprets the laws

Question 19

What is the proper noun the name of our lawmaking branch of government?

Answer 19

Congress

Question 20

List some of the big states

Answer 20

Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia

Question 21

What makes big states big?

Answer 21

They have a population of over 200,000 people

Question 22

Why did big states prefer the Virginia plan?

Answer 22

This plan called for representation to be based on population and this would give the big states more representatives and therefore more power in Congress

Question 23

List some of the small states

Answer 23

Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island

Question 24

What made the small states small?

Answer 24

The plan called for representation to be based on an equal number of each state which would give the small state rep presentation the same as the big states and therefore equal power in Congress

Question 25

The New Jersey plan called for how many houses in Congress?

Answer 25

One

Question 26

The Virginia plan called for how many houses in Congress?

Answer 26

Two-this plan was proposed by Edmund Randolph

Question 27

List two reasons why many states south of Pennsylvania clung to slavery

Answer 27

Plantation system as were built on slavery, they fear their economy would not survive without slavery

Question 28

Define Constitution

Answer 28

A plan of government

Question 29

Define ordinance

Answer 29

A law