| A | B |
|---|
| Problems from Britain | They refused to take their troops out of the Ohio Valley. |
| Problems from Spain | They closed the port at New Orleans. |
| Problems from the Colonies | Each state refused to take the others form of money |
| Problems from the Articles of Confederation | No courts to resolve land issues |
| territory | area of the U.S. that was not organized into a state |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | Set up a system for settling the Northwest Territory |
| Northwest Ordinance | It set up a government for the Northwest Territory and outlawed slavery |
| Shay's Rebellion | Situation in which a Mass. farmer raided courthouses to protest the seizing of farms for non-payment of taxes |
| economic depression | business activity slows, prices and wages fall, and unemployment rises |
