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Week 16 Growing Pains

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A new coin system created by ________ was adopted by Congress in 1785.

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Dolly Madison

c)

George Washington

d)

Thomas Jefferson

2.

This Revolutionary War soldier-turned-farmer led a rebellion against the government in 1786-1787.

a)

Daniel Shays

b)

James Dean

c)

Benedict Arnold

d)

Baron von Steuben

3.

George Washington was ________.

a)

the first president, the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, the inventor of bifocals

b)

the first man on the moon, the first man to pose for the dollar bill, a farmer

c)

a Revolutionary War general, the inventor of the hot-air balloon, the inventor of the quarter

d)

a Revolutionary War general, the first president, a surveyor

4.

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for _______.

a)

new land for states, new slaves, new trade with the Chinese

b)

new land for states, prohibition of slavery, the Ohio River as a boundary

c)

new land for Native Americans, fur trading with China, hot-air ballooning

d)

new land for existing states, more tax money, cooperation with the British

5.

This agreement officially ended the Revolutionary War.

a)

Treaty of Cornwallis, 1781

b)

Treaty of Osceola, 1843

c)

Treaty of Paris, 1783

d)

Treaty of Philadelphia, 1776

6.

The Articles of Confederation provided for a _______.

a)

League of Women Voters

b)

ginseng exchange

c)

firm league of friendship

d)

national constitution

7.

This law allowed states to expand by buying surveyed lands to their west.

a)

Southwest Ordinance

b)

Florida Exchange

c)

Land Ordinance of 1785

d)

Northern Territory Rule

8.

The post-Revolutionary War government of the early 1780s was based on which document?

a)

the Articles of Confederation

b)

the Bill of Rights

c)

the Declaration of Independence

d)

the Constitution

9.

Technology of the 1780s included _______.

a)

submarines and cellular phones

b)

hot-air balloons, bifocals and ice cream

c)

ice cream, Coca-Cola™ and sandwiches

d)

bifocals, coins and airplanes

10.

Some problems under the Articles of Confederation were that states ________.

a)

printed their own money and taxed each other

b)

taxed each other and went to war against England and France

c)

printed their own money and fought over names of ice cream flavors

d)

made their own rules for trade and started the Civil War