Government Quiz 2-3

America leaders wanted a strong central government because of experiences with the British monarchy

• True

• False

Republicanism was supported by establishing a legislature in the new governments

• True

• False

The power to raise taxes was granted under the Articles of Confederation

• True

• False

A major weakness in the Articles of Confederation was shown by

• The Northwest Ordinance

• The Land Ordinance of 1785

• Shays's Rebellion

• The Treaty of Paris 1783

In 1787 the states met to revise the Articles of Confederation

• and failed to get enough states to agree

• and agreed to meet in 1788 in the Annapolis Convention

• successfully revised the Article of Confederation

• instead chose to write an entirely new Constitution.

A major controversy in writing the Articles of Confederation was over

• the legality of slavery

• creating an executive branch

• deciding on whether states or the national government should have more power.

• having an army controlled by the national government.

A serious problem following the Revolutionary war was

• many states refused to help pay the war debt

• the national government's inability to negotiate with Native Americans

• the national government's inability to coin money.

• the national government's inability to negotiate treaties with other nations

A major achievment for the government under the Articles of Confederation was

• providing for governing and settling the lands west of the Appalachians.

• creating a national court system.

• regulating trade between the states.

• gaining the ability to levy taxes.

Henry Knox and others believed that the national government

• did not protect the rights of citizens

• should allow states to print their own money

• was too powerful and was destroying the states

• was unable to keep order and provide security

Shays's rebellion was caused by

• farms being foreclosed non payment of taxes

• disagreement over how to settle the western lands

• Loyalists angry over mistreatment after the war

• Indian attacks on the frotier