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Chapter 8
Confederation to Constitution
Section 1
The Confederation Era
Chapter 8 Sec 1 Vocabulary
1)Wilderness Road
2)Republic
3)Articles of Confederation
4)Land Ordinance of 1785
5)Northwest Territory
6)Northwest Ordinance
7) Shay’s Rebellion
Chapter 8 Objective Questions 1-3
1) Into which areas did American settlement
expand in the late 1700s?
2) What kind of governments did the new states
create for themselves?
3) What is a republic? Why is the United States
a republic?
Chapter 8 Objective Questions 4-6
4) What issues divided the Continental Congress
as it developed a plan for a national
government?
5) What were the structure and powers of the
national government under the Articles of
Confederation?
6) How did state claims to western lands affect
the acceptance of the Articles of
Confederation?
Chapter 8 Objective Questions7-9
7) How did the Land Ordinance of 1785 state
that the western lands should be divided?
8) How were the western territories governed
under the Northwest Ordinance?
9) Why was the Northwest Ordinance important
to the growth of the United States?
Chapter 8 Objective Questions
10-12
10) Why was debt a critical problem for the
national government under the Articles of
Confederation?
11) Why did the national government get little
financial support from the states?
12) How did Shay’s Rebellion point out the
weakness of government under the Articles of
Confederation?