Articles of Confederation/Shays' Rebellion

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Across
  1. 3. taxes on imports or exports imposed by Britain on American merchants
  2. 4. This country was not turning over their forts with “all convenient speed”
  3. 5. He led a rebellion of Massachusetts farmers in closing down the courthouse, the group was eventually stopped by state troops in January 1787
  4. 7. Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers in order to protect the liberties of the people
  5. 8. the right to vote
  6. 10. established the Northwest territory as well as a system for bringing new states into the union
  7. 14. set up a system of dividing western lands into townships which were 36 square miles divided into 36 lots of 640 acres each
  8. 15. A Constitutional Convention is planned here in May 1787 to edit and revise the Articles of Confederation
  9. 16. trade two or more states--states had various trade laws which made it difficult for merchants to trade across state lines
Down
  1. 1. After 1783, travel and trade stopped in the British_____
  2. 2. a document signed by King John in 1215 that made the king subject to law
  3. 6. closed off the lower Mississippi River
  4. 9. when the value of goods goes down and the price of goods goes up, caused by overdue taxes, wartime debts, and printing large amounts of paper money without the gold/silver to back it
  5. 11. official approval--AoC was ratified November 15, 1777
  6. 12. Some examples in the AoC: most power held by states, one branch of government, legislative branch has very little power
  7. 13. a set of basic principles and laws that states the powers and duties of the government