Question 1
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
A. guaranteed freedom of religion throughout the affected areas.
B. created a single territory out of the lands north of Ohio.
C. prohibited slavery within the affected areas.
D. abandoned the system created in the 1784 Ordinance.
E. All these answers are correct.
Question 2
The Articles of Confederation were finally approved when states gave up their
A. power to make war.
B. power to regulate trade.
C. plans for emancipation.
D. claims to western lands.
E. right to levy their own taxes.
Question 3
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to
A. draft troops.
B. levy direct taxes on the people.
C. override state laws.
D. regulate trade.
E. borrow and issue money.
Question 4
Shortly after signing the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the British government
A. evacuated its forts in America.
B. attempted to purchase Florida.
C. made restitution to slaveholders for slaves the British army had confiscated during the war.
D. restricted American access to British markets.
E. declared war on Spain to take its New World colonies away.
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Marcantonio Raimondi, The Judgment of Paris (detail).
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