Plz match them up Cause: Rice exports dropped sharply; trade fell off when Great Britain closed

the West Indian market to Americans; the little bit of money available went to

pay foreign debt.

Effect:

2. Cause: American farmers could not pay the taxes levied by the states.

Effect:

3. Cause: Daniel Shays led Shays’ Rebellion, during which four rebels were killed

by the state militia.

Effect:

4. Cause: Virginia passed a law that encouraged manumission.

Effect:

5. Cause: George Washington agreed to travel to the Constitutional Convention.

Effect:

6. Cause: The proceedings of the convention were kept secret.

Effect:

7. Cause: In the Virginia Plan, the number of representatives in the legislature would correspond

to a state’s population.

Effect:

8. Cause: Southern states refused to abolish slavery.

Effect:

9. Cause: The Constitution did not contain a bill of rights.

Effect:

10. Cause: The Articles of Confederation had required unanimous approval of the states, a slow

and frustrating process.

Effect:

A. The state’s free African American

population grew rapidly.

B. The approval process for the

Constitution was nine of the thirteen

states.

C. State officials seized farmer’s land to

pay the farmer’s debts.

D. The meeting took on a higher

significance.

E. Elbridge Gerry and George Mason

would not sign the constitution.

F. Congress agreed not to interfere with

the slave trade for twenty years.

G. Some delegates rallied around William

Paterson’s proposal for a one-house

Congress with equal representation.

H. A depression occured.

I. Delegates could speak freely and

change their minds.

J. Americans worried whether the

government could control unrest and

prevent violence.