The Articles of Confederation
Who approved the Articles of Confederation?
Who is The Continental Congress
What banned slavery in the new territories?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
What put farmers in debt starting Shays Rebellion?
The articles of confederation.
Who led Shays Rebellion?
Daniel Shays
How many of the 13 states voted for the ratification?
9/13 states.
What did the Northwest Ordinance do?
Had it so that once a population reached 60,000, it could devise a republican constitution and apply to join the confederation.
What was the Fugitive salve clause?
It allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who escaped into slave free states
Who did America look to find finacial solutions?
Robert Morris
What bad came from the Articles?
It crippled American shipping and cut exports of tobacco, rice, and wheat. It also put them in debt.
Why did they wait till 1808 to end the slave trade?
To let southern states adjust and prepare for it.
Who started to forge his defence for a new national constitution?
Alexander Hamilton
Who disliked and revolted against the articles? What was the movement calleds
The angry farmers of Shay's Rebellion.
What was the three-fifths clause?
It let slaves count as three-fifths of a state's population.
Who agreed that contradicted the country's republican ideas, but stuck trying to appease their southern constituents?
George Madison
Briefly explain what the Articles of Confederation where
They were the first written constitution for the US
What is the biggest criticism of the consitution?
It failed to end slavery.
Who was famous for critisizng there husband about the right of women?
Abigal Adams