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Chapter 8, Section 1 – The Confederation Era
I. Moving West
1. Daniel Boone helped to build the ______, which allowed settlers to move west through Kentucky.
2. Over 100,000 Americans moved ______by early 1790s.
II. New State Governments
1. State governments focused on making their systems more ______with separate branches, which would prevent the ______government from gaining too much power.
2. Although not all states had a bill of rights, they all had a ______form of government.
3. In a republic, the people choose ______to govern them.
III. The Articles of Confederation
1. In 1776, Continental Congress began to develop a plan for a national ______.
2. Their final plan was the ______, which gave the states more power than the federal government.
3. Each state had only one vote in Congress but the national government had the power to ______.
4. The most important powers were left to the states: ______& control ______west of the Appalachian Mountains.
5. States without access to the western ______were not willing to sign the Articles of Confederation.
6. They wouldn’t be able to pay off their ______from the war as easily as the states that could sell western lands.
7. By 1781, all states gave up their land claims & signed the ______.
IV. The Northwest Ordinance
1. The most pressing question after the war was what to do about the ______.
2. The ______called for surveyors to stake out six-mile square plots, called townships, in these lands.
3. These lands came to be known as the ______which were Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. (see pgs. 210-211 for more info.)
4. The ______allowed territories to apply for statehood if they had 60,000 people.
5. These territories had freedom of ______, trial by jury, ______was outlawed, and rivers were allowed to be used for ______.
6. The ordinance set the precedent for how territories were added as ______to the country.
V. Weaknesses of the Articles
1. ______was a big problem for Congress and thousands of soldiers were owed a lot of money.
2. Congress relied on the ______to send money, but they sent very little.
3. After the Revolutionary War, most states were struggling ______.
VI. Shays’ Rebellion
1. Many people were in high debt because of taxes, which were in excess of ______a year.
2. Many in Massachusetts were put into ______because they could not pay off their debts.
3. Farmers asked the legislature for ______, but they refused.
4. 1,500 men, led by war veteran ______, rebelled in January of 1787.
5. Shays and his men marched on a federal ______in central Massachusetts, but were quickly defeated by 900 soldiers.
6. The uprising came to be known as ______and gained the sympathy of many political leaders.
7. Leaders began thinking a stronger national ______could solve the nation’s ills from the American Revolution.