Chapter 5: Shaping A New Nation

Under the Articles of Confederation, each state's power in Congress was based on

• one vote per state

• the state's size

• the state's total population

• the state's voting population

The Articles of Confederation gave the national government the power to

• declare war

• collect taxes

• regulate foreign trade

• regulate interstate trade

From the time of the Declaration of Independence until the ratification of the Constitution, the U.S. functioned without

• courts

• an army

• a president

• a national currency

One of the accomplishments of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was to

• set up a plan for surveying western lands

• challenge Spain's claim to the Mississippi River

• transfer ownership of western lands from states to the national government

• establish requirements for administering new states to the Union

Shay's Rebellion was a protest by farmers who faced problems from

• an oversupply of paper currency

• debts they owed to creditors

• debts owed to them by Congress

• debts owed to them by the state of Massachusetts

The Great Compromise was an agreement about how to

• ratify the Constitution

• count slaves in determining population

• determine a state's representation in Congress

• divide powers between the states and the central government

The system that maintains the separation of powers among the branches of the federal government is called

• reserved powers

• delegated powers

• checks and balances

• a bicameral legislature

The number of states needed to ratify the Constitution before it could go into effect was

• seven

• nine

• eleven

• thirteen

Adding a bill of rights to the Constitution was largely supported by the

• small states

• large states

• Federalists

• Antifederalists

All of the following men wrote letters contained in The Federalist papers except

• John Jay

• James Madison

• Richard Henry Lee

• Alexander Hamilton