The Later Middle Ages



short answer Read each question then answer in the space below.

1.Which factors indicate that there was an economic depression in the United States after the Revolutionary War?

2. Women, African Americans, and Native Americans did not take part in the Constitutional Convention because?

3. Why did the Annapolis Convention of 1786 fail to answer the needs of the nation?

4. Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom declared what?

5. The Federalist Papers tried to reassure Americans about the new federal government created under the Constitution by stating that it would?

6. Why did Congress decide to pass the Land Ordinance of 1785, which divided western lands into townships?

7. The New Jersey Plan, which was presented at the Constitutional Convention, stated that?

8. In 1784 officials from which country closed the lower Mississippi, which the United States had used to ship goods to eastern markets?

9. What did Daniel Shays and his men protest in 1786?

True/False Read the FALSE statement below. Replace each underlined word with a word that makes each sentence TRUE.

10. Passed in 1689, the Articles of Confederation prevented the king and queen from passing taxes or changing laws without Parliament’s consent.

11. Popular sovereignty was created to balance the power of the central government with the power of the states.

12. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch was to lead the national government.

13. At the Constitutional Convention, the delegates ultimately decided that one-tenth of a state’s slave population would count when determining representation.

14. Mason’s Rebellion was an uprising of farmers to protest high taxes and heavy debt.

Read each description. write the term, or person that best matches each description.

15. the branch of government responsible for interpreting the laws

16. became known as the Father of the Constitution for his ideas about government

17. an agreement reached that created a two-house legislature

18. opposed the Constitution because it did not have a section protecting individual rights

19. official changes made to the Constitution

20. an agreement that only a portion of a state’s slaves would count in determining its representation in Congress

21. the sharing of power between central and state governments

22. the branch of government that proposes and passes the laws

23. a document created to protect the rights of citizens

24. the idea that political power belongs to the people

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