America under the Articles of Confederation

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The most common occupation in America in the late 1700s was

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farming.

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The first written plan to set up a government for the United States that lasted approximately eleven years was the

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Articles of Confederation

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What was one challenge the Confederation Congress actually dealt with successfully? Options: The problems presented by the worthless Continental dollars that had been over-printed during the Revolutionary War. The problems presented by a Spanish governor who was our ally in the Revolutionary War, but refused to allow access to the Mississippi River. The problems presented by British troops who stayed behind with forts in American territory. The problem of how to settle land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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The problem of how to settle land west of the Appalachian Mountains

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_______ was an uprising where a farmer presented the courts from meeting. He was going to lose his land because he was in debt and had been paid for his service in the Revolutionary War with worthless Continental dollars.

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Shay's Rebellion