1. Bell work: ISN page
Create a three tab foldable. Use textbook pages 181 – 181 and readings from yesterday. Explain each of the following acts and/or ordinances.
Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Land Act of 1800

2. Problems Under the Articles of Confederation

3. Financial Problems
Paper currency depreciated (fallen in value) and was worth almost nothing
Prices of food and other goods soared leading to food riots in some places

4. Congress faced large debt from war and still owed soldiers pay for service
States provided less than half of what congress asked them to contribute

5. American Money
Why would it be important to have one standard form of money?
(slides from online teaching options)

6. Import tax Import tax proposed to help pay national debt
Rhode Island opposed the tax and plan failed – under Articles all states must approve a change

7. Relations with Britain
Merchants complain Britain blocking trade with West Indies and other British markets
British troops occupy forts in Great Lakes regions – had promised to withdraw under the treaty
1785 – John Adams sent to London to discuss problems

8. 1785 – John Adams sent to London to discuss problems
British unwilling to talk saying US did not honor promise to pay Loyalists for property taken from them during the war
Congressed proposed states pay Loyalists; they refused and Congress could do nothing about it

9. Relations with Spain
Spain wants to stop US expansion into their land (controlled Florida and lands west of the Mississippi River)
Spain closed lower Mississippi River to American shipping preventing Western settlers from using it
1786 – trade agreement with Spain blocked by Southern states because it did not include the right to use the Mississippi River