The Articles of Confederation

To fall in value

• depth roll

• inflation

• depreciation

• appreciation

Having a two house legislature

• unicameral

• bicameral

• tricameral

• cameral

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

• Confederation Law

• Morris Ordinance

• Northwest Ordinance

• Ordinance of 1789

Changes to the Articles of Confederation had to be approved by a total of how many states?

• 7

• 9

• 11

• 13

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

• drawing maps

• Native Americans

• new states

• the Nation's finance

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

Passage 3: The quotation describes American Attitudes toward control of the Mississippi River in the 1780s. These attitudes led to disagreements with which nation?

• Britain

• France

• Netherlands

• Spain

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.

Why did the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation have trouble paying its debts?

• The currency had depreciated greatly since the war.

• It had already raised taxes too many times.

• The Land Act of 1800 spent all the country’s money.

• It had no power to raise money through taxes.