Forging a New Constitution

A period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases.

• Depression
• Inflation
• Deflation
• Depreciation

The freeing of individual enslaved people.

• Manumission
• Impressment
• Slavery
• Compromise

To change or revise.

• Amend
• Manumission
• Clause
• Ordinance

Having the proper size in relation to other objects or items.

• Proportional
• Remedial
• Abandoned
• Depression

A statement of a dispute or disagreement reached by each side giving up some of what it wants in order to reach an agreement.

• Compromise
• Ratify
• Colonialism
• Bicameral

Many Americans became convinced that the Articles of Confederation were to weak because of serious economic difficulties.

• False
• True
• I don't know
• Dr. Taylor, this is hard

After the Revolutionary War America went through a depression, a period when economic activities slows and unemployment increases.

• True
• False

In January, 1787, who led a force of 1,200 supporters on the arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts. Four farmers were killed.

• Daniel Shay
• John Adams
• George Washington
• Dr. James Taylor

The Revolutionary War called attention to the clash between the American belief in liberty and the practice of slavery. Between 1776 and 1786, 11 states outlawed or taxed the importation of enslaved people. Which two states did not.

• South Carolina & Georgia
• South Carolina and North Carolina
• Virginia & Maryland
• Georgia & Delaware

Which state became the first state to pass laws to end slavery.  Between 1783 and 1804, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey  called for end to slavery.

• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Georgia
• Rhode Island