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🔮Adjustment of Land Claims - the government created the Northwest Territory (ownership and control of the western Land now belongs to the Artiles of Confederation)

🔮Land Ordinance of 1785 (created a system of orderly building codes; townships; where people can and cannot build certain buildings)

🔮Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• set the rules for creating new states
• 3-5 new territories in Northwest
• population of 5000 may elect assembly
• population of 60,000 May petition for statehood
• bill of rights provided
• slavery outlawed

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🔮Treaty of Paris (1783 - ended the revolutionary war and dissolved the border line/ helped Britain recognize the US as independent)
• Britain signed the treaty (through negotiation) we had to pay back our debts

🔮Unity - held the country together until an actual government was set up (hesitation)

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unpaid war debts

🔮 financial
- states issued worthless paper money
- congress had to request donations form states to meet national needs
🔮 foreign
- Europe has little respect for the US
- US couldn’t pay its debts or preform well in a crisis
- Britain and Spain were threatening to take advantage
🔮 domestic
- squabbling over the 13 different currencies
- erecting trade barriers
- unable to suppress popular protests
- war bonds

🔮Newburgh Conspiracy
- Confederation treasury empty
- Congress has no power to tax
- Failure to pay soldiers

🔮Shays rebellion (1786)
- uprising was over high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money
- Confederation Congress was unable to prevent and appeared helpless and ineffective

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- they didn’t have a separation of powers
- large states were under represented vs smaller states were over represented
- the flexibility for changes was basically impossible
• could not tax
• no army
• could not regulate interstate and foreign trade
- could not levy tariffs on imports and exports
- took 9 states to pass a law and all 13 to amend articles
- 13 different currencies

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•(1781-1788) was governed under the Articles
• written by John Dickinson (wrote the letters from a farmer
- consisted of only the Confederation Congress
- each state only had one vote
- laws passed by 2/3rds majority and amendments had to be unanimous

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- declare war and make peace
- borrow money
- establish a postal system
- manage Indian affairs
- settle disputes between states