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1. What is the AOC?
▪ Articles of Confederation is the first system of government for the United States.
2. List the weaknesses of AOC
▪ A single branch (Legislative)
▪ Cannot tax or raise an army
▪ Did not create a UNITED nation.
▪ Lacked a national currency
3. Why was trade between states hard under AOC?
▪ Each state had its own currency.
4. Rules of the NW Ordinance
▪ Congress appoint a governor for each territory until population reached 5000. Then citizens could vote.
▪ Once population reached 60,000 the territory could write a state constitution and ask Congress to become a state.
▪ No slavery
▪ Provide public education
5. Important trade route Spain closed?
▪ The port of New Orleans
▪ This closed the Mississippi River to American trade.
6. How did Britain take advantage of US lack of defense?
▪ British refused to leave military forts along the Great Lakes.
7. Define Economic Depression
▪ Period when business activity slows, prices and wages drop, and unemployment rises.
8. Causes of Shay’s Rebellion?
9. How did national gov’t respond to Shay’s Rebellion?
▪ Called for a national convention to revise the AOC.
10. Father of the Constitution
11. Author of the Great Compromise?
▪ Roger Sherman of Connecticut
12. Components of the Virginia Plan
13. Define: Bicameral
14. Define: Unicameral
▪ One House Legislature
15. Governuor Morris’s role in the Constitution?
▪ Wrote the Preamble to the Constitution.
16. Three-fifths compromise?
17. Political groups that grew out of Constitutional ratification debate?
Federalists Antifederalists
18. How is the Constitution different than the AOC?
▪ The Constitution created a government with THREE branches.
19. Federalist Papers? Authors?
▪ A series of 85 newspaper essays defending the Constitution.
20. Main arguments between Federalists and Antifederalists?