Articles of Confederation
What war did the Articles of Confederation lead America through?
What is The Revolutionary war?
Congress could not pay back its debts from the Revolutionary War, because they could not do this.
what is raise and collect taxes?
This made the Constitution the law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Under the Great Compromise, this chamber would have equal representation.
What is the senate?
The Land Ordinance of 1785 set aside some plots from each township for this group.
What is veterans?
Unicameral Congress
What is Bicameral Congress
The Articles of Confederation made which government stronger?
What is state government?
Under the Articles of Confederation the states could print what?
What is money?
This plan for representation was favored by small states.
What is the New Jersey Plan ?
Under the Constitution, this government gained the power to regulate interstate and foreign trade
What is the federal (national/central) government?
This provided a system for dividing western lands into saleable plots.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
1 State / 1 Vote
What is the Great Compromise - Senate has equal rep. & House has pop. based rep.
The Articles of the Confederation is considered to be the first one in the United States?
what is the 1st constitution ?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could not force states to do this?
What is draft soldiers or tax citizens?
This made it a crime to help runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
This compromise counted every 5 enslaved persons as 3 persons for representation & taxes for each state.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
Double Jeopardy
_________ means to approve something.
What is ratify?
Has 1 branch - Legislature
What is 3 branches - Leg, Ex, Jud.
At least how many states had to agree for Congress to pass a law?
what is 9 out of 13?
This event made the people realize that the national government was to weak to provide protection.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This plan for representation favored states with large populations.
What is the Virginia Plan?
The Congress agree to end this after 20 years (1808).
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This granted limit self-government and set the requirements for statehood.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
No national leader
President elected every 4 years.
Double Jeopardy
How many states had to approve any amendments (changes) to the Articles of Confederation?
What is all 13 ?
States did not listen to congress.
What is didn't pay taxes, didn't send reps to congress, didn't provide military support?
The Great Compromise created this type of Congress.
what is bicameral?
This compromise decided how the president would be elected.
What is the electoral college compromise?
This was prohibited in the new states of the Northwest Territory.
What is slavery?
States did not have to pay taxes to the federal government.
What is the federal has the power to collect taxes (to pay for a military and other services)?
This was created to unify the states after declaring independence from Britain.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This problem prevented the US from getting foreign loans?
What is bad credit (couldn't pay debts)?
This provided an improved plan for how government would operate.
What is the Constitution?
Double Jeopardy
These two issues required a lot compromise.
What are representation and slavery?
This set the conditions for ending the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The states could print their own money.
What is the federal government mints the currency for the country.