Monday, October 12, 2009

HW Assignment #14 - 10/13/09

READ Chapter 5 Section 1 in your textbook (pp. 132-137)

Complete: Terms
John Dickinson * Articles of Confederation * republic * Land Ordinance of 1785 * Republicanism * Northwest Ordinance of 1787 * Republican Motherhood
Questions:
  1. Why do you think that the states guaranteed the specific rights of freedom of speech, religion, and the press?
  2. List the powers given to the Article of Confederation government. What were its shortcomings?
  3. What was the difference between the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
  4. List the three requirements or stages for a territory to become a state.
  5. What foreign relations problems did the Confederation Congress face at the end of the 1780s?


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