State Constitutions
This state's constitution became a model for others
What is Virginia?
The first constitution of the U.S., drafted in 1777
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Passed in 1787, this ordinance organized western territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Congress couldn’t raise money because it lacked this power.
What is the power to tax?
Most states restricted voting to people who owned this.
What is property/land?
Most state constitutions limited voting rights to these people
Who are white male property owners?
Under the Articles, the federal government could not do this to raise money.
What is tax the states?
The ordinance reserved land for this purpose
What are schools?
After the war, Britain and Spain restricted U.S. access to these.
What are trade routes or markets?
State constitutions protected freedoms such as press, elections, and this type of trial.
What is a speedy trial?
State constitutions often banned these titles to reject aristocracy
What are titles of nobility?
The Articles created a government with only this branch
What is the legislature?
This practice was banned in the Northwest territory.
What is slavery?
The federal government couldn’t stop pirates from attacking these.
What are U.S. merchant ships?
This social class or practice was mostly left intact by state constitutions.
What is slavery?
Power in most state governments was concentrated in this branch
What is the legislature?
The Articles couldn’t regulate this type of commerce between the states
What is interstate commerce?
The ordinance laid out rules for these areas to become official states.
What are territories?
States competed with each other economically, creating these on goods.
What are tariffs?
The fear of this British power influenced states to limit executives.
What is monarchy?
This northern state adopted gradual emancipation measures for enslaved people
What is Pennsylvania?
The Articles lacked these two key components besides the legislature.
What are a federal executive and federal courts?
The Northwest Ordinance is considered the Articles’ most notable example of this
What is a federal achievement?
This 1786–87 uprising showed the federal government couldn’t maintain order
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Legislatures were often set up with two chambers, also called this.
What is bicameral?