Articles of Confederation

Articles of Confederation

Multiple Choice

•Why did slaves first start being transported across the Atlantic to the Americas?

• To work on cash crop plantations in the 13 Colonies

• To work on sugar plantations in the West Indies/Caribbean Islands

• To create a debtor colony in Georgia

• To free them from slavery in Arica

Multiple Choice

•Why did slaves start being more important to the 13 Colonies as they grew?

• they were mostly used in the Middle Colonies

• so we would have more voters in each colony

• they were needed for the New England industries

• they were needed for the plantation economy

Multiple Choice

What is due process?

• the right to freedom of religion

• the right to freedom of speech

• the right to know your charges and have a jury trial

• no cruel or unusual punishment allowed

Multiple Select

What do the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Conn. have in common (choose two)

• both are elected groups of people

• both are documents of self-government

• both were for the same colonies

• both served as models for others

Multiple Choice

Which group holds most of the power in a confederation?

• states

• central government

• federal government

• all groups have equal power

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of the Land Ordinance of 1785?

• to reserve lands for the Indians

• to expand westward to the pacific

• to divide up the lands of the Northwest Territory

• to find a way to givr land back to England

Multiple Choice

What was created by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

• A method for new states to be created

• A process to sell the new lands

• A method for new slave states to be created

• A process to allow old states to add more land

Multiple Choice

The strengths list in the last three slides were

• not really strengths of the national government, because states actually had these powers

• really strengths of the national government, because people wanted the government to be like England's

• actually stronger than the powers King George and parliament had

• not really strengths of the national government, because there was no power to actually enforce them

Multiple Choice

What does a unanimous vote mean?

• 2/3 of the states must agree

• 3/4 of the states must agree

• the majority of states must agree

• all of the states must agree

Multiple Choice

What do you notice about the strengths and weaknesses for the national government, under the Articles?

• there were many more strengths than weaknesses for the national government, because people wanted another monarchy

• there were many more weaknesses than strengths for the national government, because people feared a tyrannical government

• there was a balance of strengths and weaknesses under the Articles

• there were many more strengths than weaknesses for the national government, because people feared a tyrannical government

Multiple Choice

What was the outcome of Shays' Rebellion?

• The colonies called for a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation

• The colonies called for a convention to request to re-join England as colonies

• The Articles of Confederation were immediately revised by 1/2 of the states

• Each states began to rule itself, since the Articles were such a failure