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US History Chapter 4 Study Guide 1. What was the Magna Carta? How did it influence the structure of the government? 2. What declared that no person could be forced to attend church or to pay for a church with taxes? 3. What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? How did it affect education in the Northwest territory? What changes did it make to slavery? When could a territory become a state? 4. What was the purpose of the Land Ordinance of 1785? How were the western lands divided? 5. Why was the banning of slavery in some state constitutions important? 6. What was the significance of the Articles of Confederation? How did the Declaration of Independence influence them? 7. What was the main cause of Shay’s Rebellion? What did most Americans call for following the rebellion? 8. What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and how did they eventually fail?
9. Describe the trade relationship between Britain and America in the late 1700s.
10.What trade route did Spain close in 1784? 11.What was the Virginia Plan?
12.What did the Great Compromise resolve?
13.How did northerners and southerners disagree on slavery at the Constitutional Convention? 14.What is federalism?
15.List powers reserved for national government.
16.List powers reserved for state governments.
17.List shared powers (between national and state governments).
18.Who was Gouverneur Morris and what he strongly support? 19.What did Anti-Federalists believe?
20.What were the Federalist Papers?
21.What was the Bill of Rights?
22.How many votes in Congress did the Articles of Confederation give each state? DEFINE THESE TERMS 23.suffrage 24.inflation 25.confederation 26.interstate commerce 27.popular sovereignty 28.depression 29.tariffs 30.Articles of Confederation 31.Magna Carta 32.New Jersey Plan 33.Northwest Ordinance of 1787 34.Shay’s Rebellion 35.Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom