Forming A Government

It's purpose was to require the English monarchy to obey the same laws as the English people

It declared that no person could be forced to attend a church or pay taxes to a church. This was the earliest expression of separation of church and state.

Each state had to approve of the Articles of Confederation

First national government created by the Second Continental Congress

This established the procedure for the admission of a state into the Union. It also banned slavery in the Ohio River Valley.

A continuous rise in the price of goods and services

states having more power than the federal government

Constitutional Convention originally met to improve the Articles of Confederation but quickly threw them out to write the Constitution we still use today

Father of the U.S. Constitution

Under this plan a bicameral legislature in which the number of delegates per state would be based on a state's population

created a bicameral legislature; the Senate had equal representation and the House of Representatives was based on population

Under this plan each state would have an equal voice in a unicameral legislature.

This determined how to include slaves in the population count when determaning how many representatives a state would have in the Congress

Many southern states threatened to leave the Union if this happened

They felt under the Constitution the central government had been given too much power.