Chapter 4 Study Guide
1. How did the Articles of Confederation cause economic problems for the United States at that
time?
2. How did the Declaration of Independence influence the Articles of Confederation?
3. How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 affect education?
4. How were western lands divided according to the Land Ordinance of 1785?
5. How would you describe the Articles of Confederation?
6. Name an advantage to allowing the federal government to coin money?
7. What are checks and balances?
8. What are the powers of the states?
9. Why did Anti-federalists oppose the Constitution?
10.
What did the Great Compromise settle?
11.
What did the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights help Americans create?
12.
What did the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom state?
13.
What does ratification mean?
14.
What does suffrage mean?
15.
What does the Bill of Rights protect?
16.
What is federalism?
17.
What is the Bill of Rights?
18.
What power does the federal and state government share?
19.
What views did Gouverneur Morris strongly support and fight for?
20.
What was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Chapter 4 Study Guide
21. What was the Great Compromise and what did it resolve at the Constitutional
Convention?
22.
What was the Magna Carta?
23.
What was the main cause of Shay’s Rebellion?
24.
What was the purpose of adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
25.
What was the purpose of the Federalist Papers?
26.
What was the reason for the Land Ordinance of 1785?
27.
Who favored a strong central government?
28.
Why has the Constitution lasted over 200 years?
29.
Why was there a system of checks and balances created?
30.
Why were the states eager to cooperate on laws to regulate interstate commerce?
Define the following:
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Articles of Confederation
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Confederation
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Depression
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Federalism
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Inflation
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Interstate commerce
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Magna Carta
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New Jersey Plan
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Popular sovereignty
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Shay’s Rebellion
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Tariffs
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Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom