A More Perfect Union - Problems at Home and Abroad

Money printed during the American Revolution increased in value.

• True

• False

The war left Congress in debt.

• True

• False

Congress had paid soldiers in full for military service in the war.

• true

• false

Congress lacked the power to tax and couldn't pay its debts.

• true

• false

Robert Morris proposed a 10 percent tax on imported goods to help pay the national debt.

• True

• False

One problem the new American government had was that the British were keeping Americans out of the West Indies and other important British markets.

• True

• False

Spain opened the lower Mississippi River to American shipping.

• true

• false

Alexander Hamilton called a convention to consider what changes were needed to the Articles of Confederation.

• true

• false

George Washington is called the "father of the Constitution"

• true

• false

The Virginia Plan called for a two-house legislature

• true

• false