Chapter 8 Study Guide
Building a Republic, 1775-1789
Review Questions1. Why was the confederation government’s authority so limited?
2. What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? What events played a
significant role in showing those weaknesses?
3. How did states determine who would be allowed to vote?
4. What was the significance of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Northwest Ordinance
(1784, 1785, and 1787)?
5. Why did the government proposed by the Constitutional Convention employ multiple
checks on each branch?
6. How did the Great Compromise satisfy both the Virginia and New Jersey plans?
7. What did antifederalists oppose the Constitution?
Terms and Names- Define and give the historical significance (Who, What, Where, When,
Why, How) of the following:
Articles of Confederation
Requisition
Republicanism
Bill of Rights
Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
Gradual Emancipation
Robert Morris
Impost
Newburgh Conspiracy
Iroquois Confederacy
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Northwest Territory
Northwest Ordinance 1784, 1785, and 1787
Shays’s Rebellion
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Constitutional convention
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise (Sherman Compromise
or Connecticut Compromise)
United States Constitution
Three-Fifths Clause
Fugitive Slave Clause
Commerce Clause
Federalists
Antifederalists
The Federalist Papers