Influences on America's Founding Documents Answers

Why did American leaders need to draft a national constitution? Check all of the boxes that apply.

Issue money

Impose taxes

Enforce laws

Declare war

Regulate trade

What caused disputes between the thirteen American states during and after the Revolutionary War? Select the correct answer.

Banned slavery

Reserved a section of land for public schools

Divided land into townships

Placed a territory under a governor appointed by congress

Declared that states entered the union with equal status as existing states

What were the governmental weaknesses that prevented the Confederation Congress from addressing the nation’s economic problems? Check all of the boxes that apply.

Which of the following was a reason why Shays’s Rebellion increased Americans’ concerns about their national government? Select the best answer.