Articles of Confederation
$100 – The first government of the United States.
👉 What are the Articles of Confederation?
$100 – A law-making body shared by all states under the Articles.
👉 What is a common legislature?
$100 – The Articles did not include this leader of the government.
👉 Who is a chief executive?
$100 – The year the Northwest Ordinance was passed.
👉 What is 1787?
$100 – The farmer who led this rebellion.
👉 Who is Daniel Shays?
$200 – Under this system, the states had more power than the central government.
👉 What are the Articles of Confederation?
$200 – Citizens traveling between states were guaranteed these.
👉 What are the same rights?
$200 – The national government could not make states do this to raise money.
👉 What is pay taxes?
$200 – The territory located between the Ohio River, Appalachian Mountains, and Mississippi River.
👉 What is the Northwest Territory?
$200 – What Daniel Shays and his followers took over.
👉 What are courthouses?
$300 – The branch of government that did NOT exist under the Articles.
👉 What is the executive branch?
$300 – The law that created a system to govern new territory.
👉 What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
$300 – The Articles did not allow the government to create this for defense.
👉 What is a national army?
$300 – The number of steps required for a territory to become a state.
👉 What are three steps?
$300 – The group of people freed from prison during the rebellion.
👉 Who are debtors?
$400 – The level of government that held the most authority under the Articles.
👉 What are the states?
$400 – This ordinance helped settle disputed land claims between states.
👉 What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
$400 – The government could not force states to do this.
👉 What is obey laws?
$400 – The population needed to apply for statehood.
👉 What is 60,000 free people?
$400 – This event showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
👉 What is Shays’ Rebellion?
$500 – The national government created by the colonies after independence.
👉 What are the Articles of Confederation?
$500 – A major success of the Articles related to western land.
👉 What is creating rules for governing new territory?
$500 – The Articles failed to create this type of money system.
👉 What is a national currency?
$500 – The first federal law to ban slavery in any U.S. territory.
👉 What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
$500 – The result of Shays’ Rebellion.
👉 What is armed conflict?