Vocabulary
About the Articles of Confederation
By the Numbers
Which law was that?
Hodge Podge
100

To approve

Ratify

100

Without the power to collect taxes Congress lacked what?

Money

100

Under the Articles of Confederation how many branches of government were there?

1

100

Another name for law is what?

Ordinance

100

What is the US currency today?

The dollar

200

DAILY DOUBLE-Branch of government that passes the laws.

Legislative

200

Under the Articles of Confederation who had more power, states or the central government?

States

200

Under the Articles of Confederation how many states had to approve a law before it passed?

9

200

The land the US received land north of the Ohio River after the Revolution called what?

Northwest Territory

200

During the Revolution, Congress printed their own money called what?

Continentals

300

The first form of government of the United States was called what?

Articles of Confederation

300

Congress did not have money after the Revolution which meant they could not pay who? (2 possible answers)

Soldiers and countries that had lent the US money during the Revolution

300

Before the Articles of Confederation could take effect, how many states had to approve the plan?

13

300

DAILY DOUBLE- Which law stated how the Northwest Territory would be divided and provided for public schools in the territory?

Land Ordinance of 1785

300

Daniel Shays and his group of farmers sought to close what?

Shays Rebellion resulted in calls for a _______ national government.

Courts

Stronger

400

This branch of government interprets the laws (decides what the laws mean).

Judicial

400

In what year did the Articles of Confederation go into effect?

1781

400

According the the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, a territory could ask to become a state once their population of free adult males was at least... 

60,000

400

Which law made slavery illegal in the Northwest Territory?

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

400

Individuals who supported making the central government stronger were known as what? Name an individual who supported this.

Nationalist

George Washington or Benjamin Franklin

500

A steady rise in prices that occurs as money loses value and things cost more.

Inflation

500

Give at least 2 examples that show that the Articles of Confederation was a weak form of government.

1.  No power by the national (central) government to collect taxes

2.  No national army

3.  Congress could not enforce laws about trade with other countries

4.  No national currency

500

Daniel Shays led a group of about how many men?

700

500

According the the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 how could a territory become a state?

Having a population of 60,000 free adult males and a written constitution.

500

In what year did representatives gather in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation?

1787

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