Vocab 1
Document that declared our independence from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
America’s first plan for government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The Articles of Confederation set up a central government with only one branch called this.
What is the Confederation Congress?
This was an uprising of farmers in western Massachusetts
What is Shay's Rebellion?
A document with a plan for a government
What is a constitution?
Another word for money
What is currency?
Most powers were given to these rather than to the central government.
What are the individual states?
Shay's Rebellion was important because it led to what?
People realizing that the Articles of Confederation were not working.
This officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
The legislative branch created by the Articles of Confederation to create laws
What is the Confederation Congress?
Americans were fearful of this, so they created a weak central government
What is tyranny?
Why was the Constitutional Convention needed?
The Articles of Confederation were not working.
This is a form of government in which the people elect representative to make laws and run the government
What is a republic?
Another word for an uprising
What is a rebellion?
This was the Federal law that divided the Northwest Territory into smaller territories and described the steps that all territories would follow to become states
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Where was the Constitutional Convention held?
Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA
The meeting of representatives that worked on America's government
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This replaced the Articles of Confederation as the law of the land
What is the US Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation had three major problems. Name all three.
1. Different currencies
2. Taxes
3. Foreign Affairs
The original goal of the Constitutional Convention was to...
revise the Articles of Confederation