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Review Terms for Articles of Confederation
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History
8th Grade
03/25/2010

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Under the Articles of Confederation, State Constitutions limited the power of the.......
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Governor
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A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that it could not deal with the...
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Nation's finances
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What single territory was created out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River?
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The Northwest Territory
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Who proposed the plan that called for collecting a 5% tax on imported goods to help pay off the new Nations debt?
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Robert Morris
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What was America's first Constitution?
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The Articles of Confederation
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A republic is a government in which citizens rule through...
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elected representatives
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One of the Confederation's accomplishments to help the new nation expand was....
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an arrangement for new states
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Who proposed Congress divide the Western territory into 10 self -governing districts?
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Thomas Jefferson
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Established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands
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Ordinance of 1785
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 created the....
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Northwest Territory
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the Confederate government was able to accomplish three things.......
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-win independence

-expand foreign trade

-provide for new states in the West

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