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Each state had its own money so a​ traveler going from Virginia to New York had to deal with different currencies.​

• Weak Congress

• Weak national government

• No national currency

• No executive or judicial branch

• ​The new states did not want to lose control of their own interests, so there were very few national laws that applied to every state.

• Weak national government

• Weak Congress

• No executive or judicial branch

• No national currency

• Congress could not collect taxes, so it had no money to do anything

• It could not control commerce— the trade between states or between the states and foreign countries​

• Weak national government

• No executive or judicial branch

• No national currency

• Weak Congress

• Each state had one vote in Congress regardless of size

• States with small populations had just as much power as states with a lot of people​

• No national currency

• One state one vote

• No executive or judicial branch

• Weak Congress

• There was no one to make sure national laws were being followed and no court to interpret and apply the laws

• No executive or judicial branch

• One state one vote

• Weak Congress

• Weak central government

The only success (thing kept) from the Articles of Confederation was the a way to admit new states called the...

• judicial branch

• executive branch

• Northwest Ordinance

• use of militias

Shay's Rebellion showed the need for a stronger

• national government

• state government

• legislative branch

• local government