Chapter 9 Creating a Nation   1. Delay in the ratification of the Articles of Confederation was caused by ____________     A) an absence of royal governors.     B) limits set on the power of the government.     C) the powers it had over the state governments.     D) disputes over state land claims in the West.   2. The last state to ratify the Articles of Confederation was ____________     A) Virginia.     B) New Jersey.     C) Maryland.     D) Kentucky.   3. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress raised money by ____________     A) taxing the states.     B) taxing property owners.     C) appealing to the courts.     D) requesting it from the states.   4. The Land Ordinance of 1785 provided that money from one section of every township be used to ____________     A) purchase land from Native Americans.     B) create a public school.     C) survey the land.     D) solve disputes among settlers.   5. The Northwest Ordinance made provisions for ____________     A) building canals to new Western lands.     B) attracting land speculators in the West.     C) removing the British from their Western forts.     D) governing new lands in the West.   6. To help solve its money problems during the American Revolution, Congress had ____________     A) used tobacco for money.     B) avoided borrowing money from private citizens.     C) divided every township into 36 sections.     D) printed paper money.   7. Confusion in the new nation's trade arose from all the following conditions EXCEPT the ____________     A) worthlessness of Continental dollars.     B) printing of money by individual states.     C) absence of banks.     D) state taxes on goods shipped between states.   8. Economic depression after the Revolution resulted from all the following causes EXCEPT the ____________     A) trouble in trade among states.     B) inability of merchants to sell British goods.     C) British laws discouraging American ships in British ports.     D) sale of lands in the West.   9. The new national constitution provided for ____________     A) a national government with three branches.     B) state governments with executive and legislative branches.     C) a larger but weaker central government than did the Articles of Confederation.     D) a judicial branch to carry out the laws.   10. Constitutional delegates from the small states objected to a plan calling for ____________     A) a one-house legislature with representation based on population.     B) two senators elected by the legislatures of each state.     C) giving Congress the power to tax and regulate trade among the states.     D) keeping the states supreme under the Articles of Confederation.   11. According to the Three-Fifths Compromise, both taxation and representation would be based on three-fifths of the South's ____________     A) total free and enslaved inhabitants.     B) enslaved people.     C) women and children.     D) Native Americans.   12. To solve differences between Northerners and Southerners, Constitutional Convention delegates agreed not to ____________     A) outlaw the slave trade for another 20 years.     B) return escaped slaves to their slaveholders.     C) use free workers in Northern manufacturing.     D) count enslaved persons in state representation to Congress.   13. The new constitution was to take effect after ____________     A) 9 of the 13 states ratified it.     B) Rhode Island sent a delegate to the convention.     C) slavery became legal in the Northwest Territory.     D) George Mason and Elbridge Gerry signed it.   14. Members of the Senate are elected to ____________     A) the executive branch.     B) two-year terms.     C) the Supreme Court.     D) six-year terms.   15. The purpose of the electoral college was to ____________     A) meet every four years to vote on a president.     B) choose senators sent to Congress by the states.     C) find a vice president for each new president.     D) decide conflicts between the states and the federal government.