Articles of Confederation
This system of government reflected Americans' fear of a powerful federal government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This rebellion was led by Daniel Shays and debt-ridden farmers in Massachusetts.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This law established a system for dividing and selling western lands.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This law established the process for admitting new states to the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Under the Articles of Confederation, each state had this many votes in Congress regardless of its size.
What is one vote?
Under the Articles of Confederation, this was the only branch of the federal government.
What is Congress/Legislative?
Farmers involved in Shays' Rebellion were struggling with this financial problem.
What are personal debts?
The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided land into rectangular townships that measured this many square miles.
What is six square miles?
The Northwest Ordinance banned this institution in the Northwest Territory.
What is slavery?
This many of the 13 state votes were required for Congress to pass laws under the Articles.
What is nine?
Under the Articles of Confederation, citizens paid taxes to this level of government.
What are their own states?
The federal government lacked the power to do this, making it difficult to raise money to pay its debts.
What is collect taxes?
Each section of land measured this many acres.
What is 640 acres?
A territory needed this many free male adults to elect its own local assembly.
What is 5,000?
The states often operated this way economically after the Revolutionary War, competing rather than cooperating.
What is independently?
These two branches of government were missing under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the executive and judicial branches?
These two economic powers were missing under the Articles of Confederation, making it harder for states to work together.
What are regulating commerce and establishing a national currency?
Revenue from the sale of this numbered section of each township was reserved for public schools.
What is the 16th section?
A territory could apply for full statehood once it reached this population.
What is 60,000 free inhabitants?
The federal government could not regulate this or establish a national currency, which weakened the economy.
What is commerce?
This requirement made it extremely difficult to amend the Articles of Confederation.
What is unanimous agreement by all 13 states?
Shays' Rebellion helped convince national leaders that the United States needed this type of change.
What is a stronger central government?
The sale of western lands helped the new government accomplish this financial goal.
What is generating revenue to pay off debt?
This state was the first to enter the Union under the system established by the Northwest Ordinance.
What is Ohio?
This event helped motivate George Washington, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton to support a convention in Philadelphia.
What is Shays' Rebellion?