Unit 4 Test Review

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 _____

• allowed slavery in the Northwest Territory
• established a method for admitting new states to the Union
• paid for roads to move west
• created townships to sell land

Americans were afraid that a __?__ would lead to tyranny, or oppressive rule.

• strong state government

• weak government

• strong central government

• legislature

Which is a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Congress couldn't collect taxes

• No national courts to settle state disputes

• Difficult to pass new laws or amendments

• All of the these

The two chambers of Congress (the US Legislative Branch) are....

• House of Representatives and Assembly 
• Senate and Congress 
• House of Representatives and Senate
• House of Lords and House of Commons

In what chamber of Congress does each state have equal representation? 

• Senate 
• House of Representatives 
• General Assembly 
• House of Commons 

Shays' Rebellion in MA started as a protest against

• unfair taxes and farmers' debt
• the death penalty
• the Revolutionary War
• Native Americans

Which Framer is known as the "Father of the Constitution"?

• George Washington
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Mason

The Land Ordinance of 1785 established

• peace treaties with Native tribes
• townships to sell land in the Northwest Territory
• compromises between large and small states
• governments for the western territories

The Virginia Plan called for representation in Congress based on

• population of each state
• tax revenue from each state
• equal legislators for each state
• slave population of a state

The Virginia and New Jersey Plans were combined in the

• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Trade Compromise
• Southern Compromise
• Great Compromise