8th grade Chapter 5

True or False: After the American Revolution, most states allowed only white men who were at least 21 years old to vote.

True or False: Slavery was a major source of labor in the North

True or False: the delegates at the Constitutional Convention included Native American, African Americans, and women

True or False: The first three articles of the Constitution describe the structure of the federal government.

True or False: Anti-Federalists supported the Constitution

Match the following

• John Locke

• the freeing of individual enslaved persons

• bicameral

• to fall in value

• manumission

• proposed the Great Compromise

• Roger Sherman

• having two separate legislatures

• depreciate

• wrote that government is based on a contract between people and the rulter

Which law helped stop the spread of slavery to the West?

• Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest Ordinance

• Morris Ordinance

• Confederation Law

The Articles of Confederation had to be approved by how many states?

• 7

• 11

• 10

• 13

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention?

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

Under the federal system of government, what or who is the final authority?

• Constitution

• Courts

• The President

• The states