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Ch. 7 and Citizenship Handbook Test Review
DIRECTIONS: Use your textbook and notes to help you write the answers to the following questions. Please study these questions
and answers to help you prepare for the test on NOVEMBER 20th.
CHAPTER 7
1. In the most basic terms, what is the AOC?
2. List/explain the weaknesses of the AOC.
3. Why was trade between the states so difficult under the AOC?
4. List the rules or policies the Northwest Ordinance established. (Use your AOC notes)
5. Which important trade route did Spain close off for American farmers?
6. How did Britain take advantage of the U.S. lack of a common defense?
7. Define economic depression.
8. Explain what caused Shays' Rebellion.
9. How did the national government respond to Shay's Rebellion?
10. Who is considered the "Father of the Constitution"?
11. Who is the author of the Great Compromise?
12. List the components of the Virginia Plan.
13. Define bicameral.
14. Define unicameral.
15. What role does Governuor Morris play in the Constitutional Convention?
16. What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
17. What were the two political groups that grew out of the Constitution ratification debate?
18. How is the Constitution different than the AOC?
19. Explain what the Federalist Papers were and who wrote them.
20. What were the main arguments between the two groups debating the ratification of the Constitution?
How were these arguments resolved?