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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