Across
- 1. Originally the new national government was unable to do this to help pay its bills
- 4. By defeating the british the colonists gained their ____________.
- 6. this set rules for creating new states
- 12. the first government of the USA was created from this document
- 14. a loose association of separate states that cooperate together
- 15. in order to charge the articles of confederation there had to be a ___________ vote amongst the states
- 16. Foreign nations were angry that the United States couldn't pay this after the revolutionary war
- 17. number of votes for each state under the articles of confederation
Down
- 1. the original number of states in the newly independent USA
- 2. number of pages in the articles of confederation
- 3. number of states it took out of 13 to approve laws
- 5. the federal government could only ask the states to ___________ money to the national debt
- 7. the 1780s were known as this
- 8. the states under the article were incredibly ___________.
- 9. a central government with only 1 law making house is called ___________.
- 10. the central government under the articles was incredibly _________.
- 11. colonists were scared that if they gave too much power to the federal government that the usa would become a __________ (system of government with a king)
- 13. the treaty of __________ in 1783 ended the revolutionary war