WorksheetsChapter Five: Lesson One--The Articles of Confederation
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
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.
The war for independence left the Continental Congress with a huge debt.
True
False
Select the sentences from the quotation that best supports the conclusion that the policies of the national government under the Articles of Confederation led to inflation.“…As more continentals appeared, people realized that
Congress could not exchange or trade in the bills for gold or silver
The public began to doubt the money was worth anything
In 1779 it took 40 continentals to buy a single Spanish silver dollar.
By 1781, a person needed 146 continentals to buy that Spanish coin..."
Which country was still occupying Western forts and also blocking US merchants from trading in the West Indies?
Great Britain
France
Spain
Canada
