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Chapter 7-1 Study Guide
1. Disputes over land threatened to block approval of the Articles of Confederation.
2. A republic is a government in which people rule through elected representatives.
3. Under the Articles of Confederation nine states needed to approve a law for it to pass.
4. Most states established bicameral legislatures
5. Americans did not want to give power to a single ruler because: of their experiences with
Great Britain.
6. America’s first constitution was called: The Articles of Confederation
7. In the 1780s the Continental or currency printed by Congress was worth very little.
8. The Articles of the Bill of Rights of the Northwest Ordinance gave settlers freedom of worship,
which means religion and trial by jury.
9. Under the Articles of Confederation Congress was unable to pass an import tax to help pay the
national debt.
10. Achievements of the Confederation Congress (Congress under the Articles of Confederation:
included signing the Treaty of Paris, establishing and dividing the Northwest Territory and
passing ordinances to help settle the new land.
11. The Confederation Congress could not pay its debts because it did not have the power to tax the
American citizens or states.
12. The states limited the powers of the central government (Congress) under the Articles of
Confederation in the following ways: could not tax, elect a president, amend the Articles
without all 13 states agreeing, regulate trade, enforce laws.
13. The water boundaries of the Northwest Territory were the Great Lakes to the north, the
Mississippi River to the west and the Ohio River to the South.
14. The Spain did not want to grant the U.S. control or use of the Mississippi River.
15. The Ordinance of 1785 divided the lands of the NW Territory into townships.
16. Robert Morris proposed an import tax to pay the national debt.
17. A clause in the Northwest Ordinance (a document) was the first attempt to stop the spread of
slavery in the U.S.
18. The British were unwilling to withdraw troops in America as promised in the Treaty of Paris
because: Americans had not lived up to their promises and repaid the Loyalists for property
taken.
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