Unit 3 PVLs Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers

Unit 3 PVLs Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Articles of Confederation - ANSWER- 1st Constitution of the U.S. (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade) Northwest Ordinance - ANSWER- a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed, first time we see in the U.S. a territory bans slavery. critical period - ANSWER- the period of time following the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 to the inauguration of George Washington as President in 1789. Shay's Rebellion - ANSWER- Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in , protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out. Constitutional Convention - ANSWER- A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution Great Compromise - ANSWER- Compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house Three-Fifths Compromise - ANSWER- Agreement that each slave counted as threefifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment)