HippoCampus Questions Related to
Chapter 2
Articles of Confederation
1.
What powers were concluded in Ben Franklin’s
proposal in the Albany plan of the union?
a.
Power to
organize military forces
b.
Regulate trade
c.
Collect taxes
2.
What were the accomplishments achieved by the
northwest ordinance?
a.
Established a
method for new state creation
b.
Outlawed
slavery in the new territory
c.
Set aside land
for education
Examples: Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin
3.
What were the shortcomings of the articles of confederation?
Pg. 45 Weaknesses
of the articles of confederation.
Weaknesses:
Power to levy Questions, No Courts, No power to levy taxes, No power to
regulate commerce, No power to create a federal army, cannot enforce law on
states or individuals.
4.
What were the anti-federalists against the
ratifications of the United States constitution?
Anti
–federalist were against the articles of because they were scared of a strong
central government and it lacked a bill of rights.
5.
Disclaim Shays Rebellion.
Farmers
could not pay their taxes and were about to foreclose ont heir land. Farmers
were upset and started to rebel.
6. What did
Shays Rebellion accomplish?
Legislature branch of government gave them
debt relief and it proved that the articles of confederation were weak.
Extra Questions:
1.
What is a confederation?
Alliance of sovereign states to
come together for a common cause
Example: EU European Union
2.
The
states wanted a soft government?
So their individual rights would not be
trampled on my a strong government
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Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence
- What was King George III’s reaction to Thomas Paines’ Common
Sense?
He hired mercenaries to crush any
resistance
- Who helped to draft the Declaration of Independence?
Committee: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams,
Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson to prepare a formal
declaration.
- Who was the main author of the Declaration of
Independence?
Thomas
Jefferson, the youngest member of the Congress and the delegate who received
the most votes in the selection process, to write the first draft. Jefferson
spent the next two weeks writing. The committee refined and edited the
manuscript before submitting a final version to the Continental Congress on
June 28, 1776.
- Who or what documents had an influence on the main
author of the Declaration of Independence.
From discussion from the continental congress
From other proclamations
From Thomas
Paine's Common Sense
From state
constitutions
From
British Tradition
- According to the video, the Declaration of
Independence is comprised of what 3 parts? List and explain each part.
1.
Preamble:
Natural Rights of Man Kind
2.
Lists
of grievances/complaints against King George III
3.
Declaration
of independence from Great Britain.
- When was the Declaration of Independence
ratified?
July 4, 1776
- What did Benjamin Franklin mean when he stated, “We
must all hang together, or assuredly, we will all hang separately?”
It bounded them together in brotherhood because if they did
not hang together then King George would have killed them one by one.
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