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- William Patterson offered the --- to give each state an equal vote in the new legislature.
- various trade issues and the selection of national leaders were the chief stumbling blocks that needed to be cleared by representatives to the federal--- in the summer of ---.
- Congress sent --- to negotiate a preliminary agreement with England before the fighting had stopped.
- An American-Franco alliance was struck with the signing of the treaties of Military Alliance and Friendship and Commerce by Franklin and French Foreign Minister ---.
- By 1787, with limited success at correcting problems coming out of recent conventions at --- and --- the political leaders knew it was time to create a stronger central government with executive and judicial authority.
- On the international front America struggled with Spain in that Spain would not allow us to use the port at New Orleans (---) and that Spain was attempting to expand her territory from Florida (---).
- Paper money was essentially worthless and --- the economy.
- Edmund Randolph countered with his --- which would have had states represented solely by population size.
- the --- and --- provided an organized and peaceable way to turn frontier areas into territories and ultimately states.
- Laws passed by the Confederation Congress ---with any consistency by the 13 states.
- With lack of faith in the fledgling government its currency, the ---, was worthless.
- Issues with England included England's ---, England's frustration with America for being slow to return Tory property, and finally England beginning the process of impressing American sailors into Royal Navy service.
- France was angry with us for --- in the Treaty of Military Alliance of 1777.
- Livingston's arrangements with England ended up being essentially the same arrangements eventually contained in the ---.
- A government without --- or --- simply could not compel the states to act in concert or to remain unified.
- What is land given to the Native Americans?
- Although the settlement of the English colonies in North America is best divided into three groups --, --, and --colonies.
- the settlement of the English colonies in North America is typically made between life in --- and that in the upper southern colonies of Virginia and Maryland sometimes known as ---
- The disdain for --- in general and particularly the --- when enforced is the beginning of economic freedom
- In Chesapeake Society, --- had the greatest influence on religious thought.