Emma Soliman Articles X-Word
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- 2. Enforcing laws was a big obstacle that the Continental _______ faced.
- 6. The Articles of Confederation was our first _______, passed during the Revolutionary War.
- 8. The states worried that Congress would _____ some states more than others, which is why they decided to do their best to weaken the government. (And as we know, they did!)
- 9. To try to persuade people to buy local products, the states _____ goods that were produced in other states.
- 14. The Constitution was not written until more than a _______ after the Rev War, so until then the Articles of Confederation was our governing document.
- 16. The ___________ established the U.S as an independent and new country.
- 19. Since Congress did not have its own army after the Rev War, a local ______ had to deal with Shay's Rebellion.
- 20. The Treaty of _____ ended the Rev War and which forced England to give up some of their land, making our new western boundary the Mississippi River.
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- 1. Which U.S. State did Shay's Rebelion take place in?
- 3. Each state had/minted their own ________, which caused economic crisis and the value of paper money to dwidle.
- 4. Many factors convinced the states to want to _____/rewrite the Articles of Confederation, such as the shrinking value of paper money, the fact that the British were still present in the U.S, and Shay's Rebellion.
- 5. Only 5 states sent delegates in seventeen _________ to the convention in Annapolis, Maryland, which had the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation.
- 7. Who wrote the speller (or the dictionary) for "American English?"
- 10. The Articles of Confederation concertratred power in the _____, which was the reason Congress was so weak.
- 11. U.S Congress only had _____ brach, which was The Legislative.
- 12. When the delegates met in 1787, some of them wanted to rewrite the entire Articles of Confederation based on ____________. (Which meant that the government AND the states would be able to SHARE the power.)
- 13. Congress could declare ____, but could not force anyone to join the army.
- 15. The National Government had _____, but couldn't pay them since it was not able to tax the states.
- 17. The fact that the U.S. was not united as a country and that every state was standing on their own was the underlying ______ that the early U.S. faced.
- 18. To pass a bill, _____ out of thirteen states had to approve it, which made passing any new laws extremely difficult and made Congress have little say/power.