Articles of Confederation
What governed the United States before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The six mile squares that the Northwest Territory was divided into.
What are townships?
England, France, Spain, the Netherlands, the Barbary States, etc.
What are some of the countries that the United States had problems with after they won their independence?
The chairman of the Constitutional Convention.
Who is George Washington?
The city where the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
The only branch within the government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Legislative Branch?
What the 6 mile squares within the Northwest Territory were called when they broken down into smaller pieces.
What are sections?
The administrative problems with the Articles of Confederation.
What are Congress could not raise taxes to pay off war debt, no executive branch to enforce laws, states would tax each other, states were printing their own money (that was at times worthless)?
The "father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
The building where the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is Independence Hall?
A loose association of league of states.
What is a confederation?
The five territories within the Northwest Territory that eventually became states.
What are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin?
The length of time it took for the Second Continental Congress to approve of the Articles of Confederation.
What is a little over a year?
The oldest delegate to sign the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The nickname given to the Constitution.
What is "a bundle of compromises?"
The reason why it took four years for the Articles of Confederation to be approved.
The two reasons why the U.S. government wanted people to move into the Northwest Territory.
What is give the opportunity to poor people to own land, and get Americans to move into the land that was once controlled by their enemies? (France, England, Native Americans)
The length of time it took for all the states to approve of the Articles of Confederation.
What is 4 years?
The delegate from New York that favored a strong central government.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The year the Constitutional Convention was held.
What is 1787?
The two important pieces of legislature that were passed under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Territory Land Ordinance of 1787?
The three stages that a territory must go through before becoming a state.
What is: have 5,000 free adult males live there, write your own constitution and elect your own representatives, have a population of 60,000?
The length of time the United States was governed by the Articles of Confederation.
What is 8 years?
The man whose diary is used to describe to historians what occurred at the Constitutional Convention.
Who is James Madison?
The year the Constitution was finally approved by all the states.
What is 1790?