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- 7. The continental army had been disbanded after the ____________ war.
- 8. What was the biggest obstacle facing the Continental Congress?
- 9. Farmers joined Shays' Rebellion to protest taxes imposed by ____________.
- 12. The Articles of Confederation was US first _______.
- 16. The individual states acted in their own __________ by taxing goods from other states and minting their own currency.
- 18. What rebellion almost caused a civil war in Massachusetts?
- 19. Which power was held by the national government?
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- 1. Who are the people that oppose the constitution?
- 2. The people in ________ put together a 4000 man army and marched across western Massachusetts.
- 3. Shays and his _____________ were eventually pardoned and Massachusetts began to offer tax and debt relief.
- 4. The _____________ government had no money for new troops.
- 5. The land west of the Appalachian Mountains was turned into states by a law called the Northwest _______ of 1787
- 6. Alexander ____________ hated Congress, the world, and himself.
- 10. The Articles of Confederation can't ________.
- 11. Who lacked the power to tax the states?
- 13. The government only had _____ house.
- 14. We had a huge ___ that we owed to France.
- 15. Boston agreed to raise an army of over four thousand ___________ to fight shay's men.
- 17. ________ out of 13 states had to approve the bill for it to be passed.
- 20. A new _______ was established by the Declaration of Independence.