1. The Articles of Confederation
Chapter 2- -Set 3

5. Successes of the Article of Confederation
-Managed to keep the states together
-won the American Revolution
-Negotiated the Treaty of Paris with Britain
-Britain recognized U.S. independence
-Britain gave up lands east of Mississippi River
-Established a diplomatic corps
-Set up permanent congressional committees to
handle administrative duties
-Passed land ordinances

6. Northwest Ordinance
-Workable plan for the settling of the vast lands to
the West
-Guaranteed religious freedom
-Prohibited slavery
-Set up method to create 3 to 5 states from the
territory
-States would enter the
Union on same standing
as existing states.

7. **Economic troubles made leaders realize changes
in government needed to be made.
-States issued their own paper money, inflation soon
made it worthless
-Postwar depression hurt small businesses and
lowered prices farmers received
-Shay’s Rebellion-
-Farmers and laborers banded together, marched
on courthouses,
-freed imprisoned debtors
from jail.
-Stopped by militia.

8. **Congress officially called a meeting of the states to revise the Articles of Confederation.

9. **After many attempts at revision, the delegates
realize the Articles of Confederation will not work.
**Constitution was officially ratified on
June 21, 1788.
-New York City would be the temporary national
capital
-Elections were set for the first Congress
-First Congress would meet March 1789
-22 senators and 59 representatives
-George Washington was chosen as first President
-Bill of Rights was drafted (individual freedoms)
-Three branches of gov’t