AR Ch. 7

an alliance of independent states

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

sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.

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.

Divided the Northwest Territory into five smaller territories, established a method for governing territories, and created a path to statehood by allowing any territory with 60,000 residents to apply

6 sq mile sections established in Northwest, divided into 36 parts, the 16th one for schools, method of surveying

Provided for the surveying and selling of the land of the Northwest Territory; divided land into townships.

The freedom to stockpile goods until ships came to transport them overseas; needed since Spain controlled New Orleans where the Mississippi River emptied into the sea.

Treaty maker who negotiated with Spain for the right to deposit; his treaty made no one happy since it included Americans paying high tariffs.

Taxes on imported goods

This former Continental soldier led an uprising of about 1,200 Massachusetts farmers who tried to overthrow the government in response to high taxes/inflation that was causing many farmers to lose their lands and be placed in debtor's prison.

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 the Confederation Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention

United States statesman and leader of the Federalists

"Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, and fourth President of the United States.

Beginning on May 25, 1787, the convention recommended by the Annapolis Convention was held in Philadelphia. All of the states except Rhode Island sent delegates, and George Washington served as president of the convention. The convention lasted 16 weeks, and on September 17, 1787, produced the present Constitution of the United States, which was drafted largely by James Madison.