Across
- 2. Process for changing the Articles (required unanimity)
- 3. Paper money issued by both Congress and the states
- 4. Financial burden left over from the Revolutionary War
- 5. Last state to ratify the Articles in 1781
- 7. Prominent American who helped draft the Articles
- 9. Proposed tax on imports that was blocked by New York
- 11. Maryland city that hosted a key convention
- 13. Sole governing body under the Articles
- 15. Process by which the Articles were approved
- 16. Single-chambered legislature under the Articles
- 18. Power retained by individual states
Down
- 1. Union of states created by the Articles
- 6. Field in which Congress had sole authority
- 8. Requests for funds made by Congress to the states
- 10. Number of states in the Confederation
- 11. Defensive pact among the states under the Articles
- 12. Rebellion that exposed the Articles' weaknesses
- 14. Territory governed by the Articles' Land Ordinance
- 17. Branch of state governments that appointed Congress delegates
- 19. Power held by Congress under the Articles