Articles of Confederation

Signed July 4, 1776:

• Magna Carta

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

TRUE OR FALSE: The Articles of Confederation were a loose association of the states set up after the Revolutionary War.

What is the purpose of a census?

• To keep a count of the number of children in an area

• to know how many people are able to become doctors

• to sign up people for the war

• To keep track of the population of an area

Document signed by King John to limit his power and force him to consult his nobles before making a decision: (Happened in England in 1215)

• Northwest Ordinance

• The Declaration

• Magna Carta

• The Constitution

this is land divided into areas of six-mile squares and sometimes subdivided into thirty six smaller parcels called sections

• township

• ordinance

• division

• borough

The ancient Greeks called Democracy:

• Representative

• Democrat

• Republican

• Demokratia

Two types of democracy are:

• oligarchy

• representative

• coordinated

• direct

What is the name of the first written plan of government in America?

• Constitution
• Treaty of Paris
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation

The word _________ means to formally approve.

The Land Ordinance was set up to do this:

• To give Britain a lifeline that helped them pay off the colonists debts

• allow for surveying and sale of the land to the Americans

• provide money to the Hessians

• Help the Americans pay for the Spanish American War