The Articles of Confederation
Extra Credit Study Guide
Write the entire question & answer the question in complete sentences! (2 Points)
1. What did the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights do?
2. Why were the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
used as examples in creating the Articles of Confederation?
3. What are two examples of representative government in colonial America?
4. What did John Lock believe? How did he influence the creation of the new
American government?
5. What is a republic?
6. Who wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom? What did this inspire
other states to do by 1833?
7. What had all state constitutions established by 1787 to prevent the government
from becoming too powerful?
8. What did the Articles of Confederation create?
9. How was the national government under the Articles of Confederation
structured?
10.What powers did the Confederation Congress have under the Articles of
Confederation? What were they not able to do?
11.Why did the Confederation Congress want to sell western land?
12.What is the process for a territory to become a state?
13.In 1784, what country closed the Mississippi River to United States trade? Why?
14.What is inflation?
15.What is interstate commerce?
16.What did Shays’ rebellion demonstrate?
17.What was the original purpose of the Annapolis Convention of 1786?
Extra Credit Question:
1. Explain why you do or do not agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said of Daniel
Shays and his followers, “A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.”