Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.

set up a system for surveying and dividing western lands

1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade)

Law that described how the Northwest Territory was to be governed

the division of power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government

A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

A particular area of land

A square normally 6 miles on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided much of the United States into a series of townships.

an alliance of independent states

A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation, attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention

a region of the United States bounded by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and the Great Lakes. The region was given to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

A square normally 1 mile on a side. The Land Ordinance of 1785 divided townships in the United States into 36 sections.

A written plan of government

the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages

The first ten amendments to the Constitution

money

Chairman of meeting to revise the AOC

A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation, attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention

The AOC were created by this group

Had final authority in all matters under the AOC