Articles of Confederation Period (1781-1789)

Choose the correct answer for each question.

1 One of the successes of the Articles period was the Land Ordinance of 1785 which outlawed slavery in the Northwest territory provided for an orderly pattern of land development and settlement guaranteed that all new states would come as equals with the original 13 guaranteed religious freedom in the new lands kicked the British out of forts in the Northwest territory 2 Which of the following was one of the powers given to Congress in the Articles? the power to tax the people directly the power to regulate commerce between the states the power to establish a federal judiciary the power to make laws the power to elect a president as head of the executive branch 3 The effects of the Northwest Ordinance included all of the following except to forbid slavery in the Northwest Territory permit the citizens of a territory to elect a legislature and make their own laws permit the citizens of a territory to write a state constitution and apply to Congress for admission as a new state remove Native Americans and guarantee white settlers the right to buy land in the territory encourage the development of new states which would enter the Union as equals with the original 13 states 4 The fundamental issue at the Constitutional Convention was whether the new national government should be more or less powerful than the Confederation government whether or not slavery should be abolished how to balance the conflicting interests of large and small states whether to tax exports, like cotton none of the above 5 The delegates to the Constitutional Convention were dominated by the great farmers from the mid-Atlantic and southern states were mainly merchants, shippers, and businessmen with a solidly commercial, international outlook tended to be wealthy lawyers in their 30s and 40s were predominantly America's elder statesmen, the general that had shaped the nation's destiny since the 1750s failed to compromise on major issues