Changes to the Articles had to be approved by a total of 13 states.

The states adopted constitutions that limited the power of the

The Americans formed a republic, a government in which citizens rule through

One of the Confederation’s accomplishments was an arrangement for

What was the single territory that was created out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River?

One major weakness of the Confederation was that it could not deal with

Shays’s Rebellion forced courts to close so judges could not take away

The American Revolution brought into focus the contradiction between the American battle for liberty and

Constitutional Convention delegates voted to work toward a new national government based on the

Convention delegates broke the deadlock between large and small states when they approved

Convention delegates agreed that the Constitution must be approved by how many states?

The United States went through an economic ____________________ after the American Revolution.

After hearing about _________________________, George Washington was willing to revise the Articles of Confederation.

Many white Southerners feared economic difficulties if ____________________ no longer existed.

The presence of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin guaranteed public trust in the

In order to keep the Southern states part of the nation, Northern states agreed to prevent Congress from interfering with the slave trade until ____________________.