Social Studies Week 16 (Growing Pains for the New Nation)

Some problems under the Articles of Confederation were that states ________.

• printed their own money and taxed each other

• taxed each other and went to war against England and France

• printed their own money and fought over names of ice cream flavors

• made their own rules for trade and started the Civil War

Technology of the 1780s included _______.

• submarines and cellular phones

• hot-air balloons, bifocals and ice cream

• ice cream, Coca-Cola™ and sandwiches

• bifocals, coins and airplanes

The post-Revolutionary War government of the early 1780s was based on which document?

• the Articles of Confederation

• the Bill of Rights

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Constitution

This law allowed states to expand by buying surveyed lands to their west.

• Southwest Ordinance

• Florida Exchange

• Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northern Territory Rule

The Articles of Confederation provided for a _______.

• League of Women Voters

• ginseng exchange

• firm league of friendship

• national constitution

This agreement officially ended the Revolutionary War.

• Treaty of Cornwallis, 1781

• Treaty of Osceola, 1843

• Treaty of Paris, 1783

• Treaty of Philadelphia, 1776

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for _______.

• new land for states, new slaves, new trade with the Chinese

• new land for states, prohibition of slavery, the Ohio River as a boundary

• new land for Native Americans, fur trading with China, hot-air ballooning

• new land for existing states, more tax money, cooperation with the British

George Washington was ________.

• the first president, the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, the inventor of bifocals

• the first man on the moon, the first man to pose for the dollar bill, a farmer

• a Revolutionary War general, the inventor of the hot-air balloon, the inventor of the quarter

• a Revolutionary War general, the first president, a surveyor

This Revolutionary War soldier-turned-farmer led a rebellion against the government in 1786-1787.

• Daniel Shays

• James Dean

• Benedict Arnold

• Baron von Steuben

A new coin system created by ________ was adopted by Congress in 1785.

• Benjamin Franklin

• Dolly Madison

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson