Ch. 7 Lesson 2

Many white Southerners feared economic difficulties if _____________ no longer existed.

• depression

• currency

• slavery

In order to keep the Southern states part of the nation, Northern states agreed to prevent Congress from interfering with the slave trade until ______________.

• 1793

• 1852

• 1808

The US went through an economic ______________ after the American Revolution.

• succession

• slavery

• depression

The presence of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin guaranteed public trust in the __________________.

• Continental Army

• Shays's Rebellion

• Constitutional Convention

After hearing about ___________________, George Washington was willing to revise the Articles of Confederation.

• Grancer's Revolt

• the Boston Tea Party

• Shays's Rebellion

Convention delegates broke the deadlock between large and small states when they approved ___________.

• the Three-Fifths Compromise

• the Two-Thirds Compromise

• the Great Compromise

The American Revolution brought into focus the contradiction between the American battle for liberty and

• the need for getting money.

• the practice of slavery.

• women's right to vote.

• the right to rebellion.

Constitutional Convention delegates voted to work toward a new national government based on the

• New Jersey Plan.

• New York Plan.

• Northwest Territory Plan.

• Virginia Plan.

Shays's Rebellion forced courts to close so judges could not take away

• criminals' homes.

• farmers' land.

• stolen goods.

• money from taxes.

The freeing of individual enslaved persons is called

• convention.

• prosperity.

• manumission.

• resentment.