Impact: Chapter 5 Lesson 1 Quiz- Articles of Confederation

By the end of 1776, all states had written their constitutions.

• True

• False

Americans were ready to concentrate power in the hands of a single ruler.

• True

• False

Under the Articles of Confederation, central government could carry out foreign affairs.

• True

• False

Changes to the Articles had to be approved by a total of 13 states

• True

• False

The states adopted constitutions that limited the power of the

• governor

• president

• state representative

• state senator.

The Americans formed a republic, a government in which citizens rule through

• appointed representatives

• elected representatives

• kingships

• monarchies

One of the Confederation’s accomplishments was an arrangement for

• currency to be created

• foreign troops

• settling western lands

• the military

What was the single territory that was created out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River?

• Mississippi Territory

• Northwest Territory

• Ohio Territory

• Western Territory

One major weakness of the Confederation was that it could not deal with

• drawing maps

• Native Americans

• new states

• the nation’s finances

Match the following

• republic

• A law that created a single Northwest Territory from lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. It outlined the requirements to statehood.

• foreign country

• A country or territory outside of the boundaries of ones country

• Northwest Ordinance

• A fall in the value of currency

• bicameral

• A type of government in which citizens rule through elected representatives

• depreciation

• Two-house legislatures to divide the work of government