Articles of Confederation

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Across
  1. 2. Under the Virginia Plan, these states would have more power.
  2. 6. Under the Articles Congress had the power to ____ money.
  3. 7. States began putting these import taxes on each other, even though the Articles said they couldn't.
  4. 9. Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government only had this branch.
  5. 10. Under the New Jersey Plan, each state would have an ____ number of votes in Congress.
  6. 11. The Antifederalists demanded this in order to protect people from the stronger central government created by the Constitution.
  7. 12. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could not ______ its laws, so states could just ignore laws
  8. 13. Under the Articles the country could not pay its debts because it could not require states to pay ____.
Down
  1. 1. This group advocated in favor of a stronger central government in the new Constitution.
  2. 3. This type of legislature was created by the Great / Connecticut Compromise
  3. 4. This document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
  4. 5. The Articles did not let Congress draft these for a national army
  5. 8. If states wanted to change the Articles of Confederation, the vote had to be ____.
  6. 13. Under the Articles states made their own ____ deals with foreign countries.