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What did the states want from Articles of Confederation?

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freedom, independence, and a firm league of friendship

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What could the Government not do under the Articles of Confederation?

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Congress could not pass laws to collect taxes.

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What was the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

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The government had only one branch, could not pass laws, could not collect taxes, and did not have a common currency.

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What caused Shays’ Rebellion?

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Farmers who were veterans of the Revolutionary war were asked to pay taxes to help repay the war debt

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Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Divide the newly acquired territory in the Northwest into smaller territories as future states (established a framework for governing the Northwest Territory and outlined the process for admitting new states to the Union.)

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3 Principal Provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Three principal provisions :

1. 1. A division of the Northwest Territory into "not less than three nor more than five States"

2. 2. A three-stage method for admitting a new state to the Union:

3. 3. A bill of rights protecting religious freedom, the right to a writ of habeas corpus, the benefit of trial by jury, and other individual rights; in addition, the ordinance encouraged education and forbade slavery.

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What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention?

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Revise the Articles of Confederation

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Which point in the Virginia Plan was objected to by supporters of the New Jersey Plan?

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Larger states should have more representatives in Congress.

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What was the Great Compromise?

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• Combining the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan: equal representation in the Senate

• representation based on population in the House of Representatives

• a Congress made up of two houses

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What was the outcome of the Constitutional Convention?

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The Articles of Confederation was replaced by the Constitution