Terms of Peace
This peace agreement officially ended the American Revolution and recognized U.S. independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)
Under the Articles, the U.S. was a loose union of states with a weak central government—this is called a ____.
What is a confederation?
Under the Articles, Congress could ask states for _____ but couldn’t force them to do this.
What is pay taxes? / What is send the money?
In 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia at the ____ Convention.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The Great Compromise created a two-house (bicameral) legislature: Senate and House of ____.
What is Representatives
The last major battle of the American Revolution happened here, leading Britain to begin peace talks.
What is Yorktown?
Under the Articles, Congress was the only national body—there was no national ____.
What is an executive (branch)? / What is a president?
Some states printed more money, causing a general rise in prices—this is called ____.
What is inflation?
The delegates unanimously chose this person to lead (president of) the convention.
Who is George Washington?
Under the Great Compromise, this house gives each state equal representation.
What is the Senate?
The Treaty of Paris set the U.S. western border at this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
Under the Articles, it took this many states (out of 13) to pass a new law.
What is 9 states?
Farmers in Massachusetts protested high taxes and debt in 1786—this was called ____.
What is Shays’s Rebellion?
Madison’s new system shared power between states and a stronger national government—this is called ____.
What is federalism? / What is a federal system?
Under the Great Compromise, this house is based on state population.
What is the House of Representatives?
Name one group that the treaty did not protect well, because it made no real provisions to protect their land.
Who are Native Americans (Native nations)?
The Articles did not create national ________ or ________ branches.
What are the executive and judicial branches?
The leader of Shays’s Rebellion was this farmer (and war veteran).
Who is Daniel Shays?
This plan favored large states by basing representation on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This compromise counted enslaved people as ____ of a free person for representation.
What is three-fifths (3/5)?
Britain returned this colony to Spain after the war.
What is Florida?
This 1787 law set rules for governing the Northwest Territory and outlawed slavery there.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Shays’s Rebellion convinced many leaders the Articles were too weak and the central government needed more ____.
What is power? (or authority)
This plan favored small states by giving each state one vote in a single-house Congress.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This clause required states to return enslaved people who escaped, even if they reached a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?