Sec. 1

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Sec. 1

• Most states set up a bicameral, or two house
  legislature.
• States wanted the people to have power, wanted a
  republic.
• Voters had to be 21 year old white males, who
  owned land or paid taxes.
• In 1777 Congress adopted the Articles of
  Confederation, States would keep most of their
  power.

• The Second Continental Congress asked states to
  organize their governments.

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• When the population of a new territory reached
  60,000, it could apply to become state.
• The new states would be granted the same rights
  as the original states. Slavery was not allowed.

• Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance in 1787

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• Still owed a large debt from the Revolutionary
  War, because it had
• no power to tax.
• Robert Morris suggested an import tax, however
  even though 12 of 13 states approved, Rhode
  Islands refusal killed it.
• .

• By 1781 the government could not pay its debts

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• They said that the United States had not kept its
  promise to pay Loyalists for land taken during
  the War.
• Congress did not have the power to require the
  states to pay.

• The British had not honored their promise to
  leave the lands east of the Mississippi River.