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- 3. _________ sent home their soldiers, disbanding the army because _________ could not pay them for their service.
- 4. Because the Articles of Confederation gave all trading power and regulation to each individual states, there were economic winners and _______.
- 8. Represantatives of Congress tried to fix their debt/money problem with two _________s that made states pay taxes to the government but both failed since not all of the states agreed. (All states had to approve an amendment which is different than a bill being passed.
- 9. Noah Webster wrote an American _______ book.
- 11. Alexander Hamilton hated congress, the world and the fools in it, and most surprisingly, h_______.
- 15. Alexander Hamilton saw the U.S. as a future ______ ______.
- 17. Congress fixed many issues written in the Articles of Confederation such as only allowing Congress to ____ money because States previously ____(ed) too much money which caused the money to become less valuable.
- 18. Where did the delegates meet to revise the Articles of Confederation in May of 1787? P_________
- 19. The land west of the Appalachian Mountains was turned into states by a law called the Northwest _______ of 1787
- 20. How many states had to approve the bill for it to be passed? (_____ out of 13)
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- 1. The Articles of Confederation created a national government centered on the (legislative branch), which was comprised of a ______ house.
- 2. Congress wrote a new constitution at ______ ______ because the Articles of Confederation were flawed.
- 5. What rebellion almost caused a civil war in Massachusetts?
- 6. The Articles of Confederation made it so that only _______ could levy/impose taxes while the government had no power to impose taxes and had to request money from the states because they were bankrupt. (Underlying Crisis)
- 7. Mostly _______ inhabited the boundaries of the “Western Land” which was won in the Treaty of Paris from England.
- 10. Passed during the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation was the first U.S. __________.
- 12. Shays' rebellion was made up of angry _______s because many of them could not pay their debts and were thrown in jail for this or the government took their land.
- 13. Who realized that they were powerless because the continental army had been disbanded and the federal government had no money for new recruits. (A person who makes laws)
- 14. Natural resources, __________, and isoltation from wars, were the advantages that the U.S. had that made this foreign born illegitimate, Alexander Hamilon see us as a future......
- 16. After the war was over, some loyalists went to England while others went to _______. However, they felt like they did not really fit in.