Bell Quiz Ch. 5:2

Citizenship Question of the Week: What are the first 10 amendments of the Constitution called?

• Preamble
• Bill of Rights
• Rights of the accused
• Federalist Papers
• Article 1

Quesiton #1 What did Britain refuse to do that was required in the Treaty of Paris?

• Britain refused to sail its ships home.
• Britain refused to turn over its forts as the Treaty of Paris required.
• Britain refused to return prisoners of war.
• Britain refused to recognize the United States of America as a nation.

Question #2. What two things did Britain do that hurt the U.S. economy?

• Britain raised the prices on all goods that had been taxed during the American Revolution and had their ships refuse to transport American goods.
• Britain refused to sell goods in American markets and would not let their ships sail there.
• Britain closed many ports to American ships and charged high tariffs on American goods sold in Britain.
• Britain cut off all trade and shipping with the United States.

Question #3. What did Spain do regarding U.S. shipping and why was this important?

• They began selling ship to the United States and it was important because it was an important trade deal.
• Spain began boycotting U.S. products shipped abroad and it was important because it hurt the United States economy.
• Spain began using U.S. ships to bring supplies to California and it was important because it improved relations between the United States and Spain.
• Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to U. S. shipping so America could not send goods to eastern U.S. and foreign markets.

Quesiton #4. What would Britain do if one state passed a tariff and why?

• Britain would sell their product in another state because most states did not cooperate with one another.
• Britain would pay the states the tariff because they did not have a choice.
• Britain would immediately pull their product so it would not sell for less than they wanted.
• Britain would send people to protest the tariffs because they were hurting trade and merchants in England.

Question #5. What is interstate commerce?

• It is trade between each nation in the world.
• It represents money and the banking systems of Europe and the United States.
• It is trade between two or more states.
• It represents the travel of people between the states.

Question #6. What did some states do because of war debts and overdue taxes and what was the result?

• They cancelled the war debts but demanded that people pay their taxes and people went broke.
• They borrowed money to pay the debts and taxes and the result was the beginning of the national debt.
• They started printing large amounts of money. The result was inflation.
• Some of the states refused to pay the war debts and they forgave the taxes that were owed. The result was a default of their banks.

Queston #7. What was Shays’s rebellion and when did it occur?

• Shays's Rebellion was an uprising against slavery in September of 1787.
• Shays's Rebellion was a protest against farmers who were demanding land in Virginia in 1789.
• Shays's Rebellion was an uprising of Massachusetts farmers in August 1786.
• Shays's Rebellion was a protest against people being given religious rights in 1776.

Question #8. Why did they want to close down the courts in western Massachusetts?

• With the courts shut down no one would have to go to work.
• They wanted to close down the courts because the cost of running them had become too much for the state to maintain.
• They wanted to close down the courts because they had refused to do what the Federal government wanted.
• With the courts shut down no one’s property could be taken.

Question #9. What did some Americans believe the Articles of Confederation failed to protect?

• Some Americans believed it failed to protect the patriots who were fighting in the war.
• Some Americans believed it failed to protect the ideals of liberty set forth in the Declaration of Independence
• Some Americans believed the Articles of Confederation failed to protect the safety of the citizens of the United States.
• Some Americans believed the Articles of Confederation failed to protect those people who supported Britain in the war.