Chapter 5 Shaping a New Nation 10 mo 1st Partial

Americans adopted the Articles of Confederation but found the new government too weak to solve the nation’s problems.

• true

• false

At the Philadelphia convention in 1787, delegates rejected the Articles of Confederation and created a new constitution.

• true

• false

During the debate on the Constitution, the Federalists promised to add a bill of rights in order to get the Constitution ratified.

• true

• false

__________a government in which citizens rule through

their elected representatives.

• republic

• republicanism

• articles of confederation

• land ordinance of 1785

the idea that governments should be based on the consent of the people

• republic

• republicanism

• articles of confederation

• land ordinance of 1785

the Congress proposed a new type of government in a set of laws called the____________one in which two levels of government shared fundamental powers.

• republic

• republicanism

• articles of confederation

• land ordinance of 1785

established a plan for surveying the land

• republic

• republicanism

• articles of confederation

• land ordinance of 1785

alliance

(a)  

Congress provided a procedure for dividing the land into territories. It also set requirements for the admission of new states, which, however, seemed to overlook Native American land claims.

• Northwest

  Ordinance of 1787

• Shays’s Rebellion

• James Madison

• Roger Sherman

in 1786–1787 not only resulted in the death of four rebels but also unsettled some of

the nation’s leaders.

• Northwest

  Ordinance of 1787

• Shays’s Rebellion

• James Madison

• Roger Sherman