| A | B |
|---|
| This was the first national government of the United States | Articles of Confederation |
| Every state already had one of these | Constitution |
| Each state had a government with these three branches | legislative, executive, judicial |
| lawmaking branch of govt. | legislative |
| leadership branch of govt. | executive |
| branch of govt. which interprets the law | judicial |
| year when Articles were put into effect | 1781 |
| The Articles had this number of houses | One |
| Under the Articles, each state had this many votes | One |
| This made an efficient way for the govt. to sell lands in the west. | Land Ordinance 1785 |
| This outlined a process for adding new states to the union | NW Ordinance 1787 |
| These were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation | Couldn't enforce laws, couldn't tax |
