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The Confederation Era

Quiz by BJ Paulson

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  • Q1
    A road that traveled westward over the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky.
    Wilderness Road
    30s
  • Q2
    A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War.
    Articles of Confederation
    30s
  • Q3
    A law that divided much of the United States into a system of townships to facilitate the sale of land to settlers.
    Land Ordinance of 1785
    30s
  • Q4
    Lands northwest of the Appalachians, covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785.
    Northwest Territory
    30s
  • Q5
    Law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed.
    Northwest Ordinance
    30s
  • Q6
    Revolt led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures.
    Shays's Rebellion
    30s
  • Q7
    A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting.
    republic
    30s
  • Q8
    A field of grass or wildflowers.
    meadow
    30s
  • Q9
    Hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties.
    confrontation
    30s
  • Q10
    A person who measures land.
    surveyor
    30s
  • Q11
    A pledge that something will happen or that something is true.
    guarantee
    30s
  • Q12
    To explain in greater detail.
    elaborate
    30s
  • Q13
    Very large, huge.
    enormous
    30s
  • Q14
    A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
    protocol
    30s

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