5.2

Under what document was Congress not able to force states to provide soldiers for an army?

Articles of Confederation

Despite all of this, _____________________ remained the most important trading partner of the U.S.

Britain

The closing of the trade markets in the British West Indies hurt the U.S. economy. Farmers who wanted to trade their goods with the British West indies had to hire _______________________ ships to carry their goods there. It was very expensive.

British

After 1783, American ships were no longer able to trade with and stop in the ________________

British West Indies

This leads American merchants to begin to look for other markets such as _____________________, ________________________, and _____________________.

China, France, Netherlands

In 1785, this situation led a British magazine to call the U.S. the

Dis-United States

The British were not turning over their ______________________ of the Great Lakes.

Forts on the American side

The U.S. also had trouble enforcing ____________________________________________.

International Treaties

During this time, each state handled its economic woes differently. What did Massachusetts do?

Massachusetts refused to print worthless paper money.

What happened to the Continental Army after the signing of the Treaty of Paris?

The Continental Army had disbanded, or dissolved soon after.

As landowners had to pay the new taxes in Massachusetts, farmers were hit the hardest. What happened to the farmers when they weren't able to pay their debts?

The courts began forcing them to sell their property, some farmers had to serve terms in debtors' prison, the other farmers had to sell their labor.

What made the creditors here unhappy? And, what did they do? Please explain why.

The creditors did not want to get paid back with worthless money, so they Feld to Rhode Island. They did this because they thought it was pointless to get paid back with worthless stuff.

Why did the national government find it difficult to protect its citizens against foreign threats?

They found it hard because they did not have an army.

What happens when you add the loss of trade with Britain with inflation?

a depression. A depression is a period of low economic activity combined with a rise of unemployment.

The plan could not be passed. As a result Spain

broke off the negotiations

In 1784, Spanish officials _______________ to U.S. shipping.

closed the lower Mississippi River

The ____________________________________________________________ could not correct the problem because it did not have the _________________________________ to pass __________________________________.

confirmation congress, authority either, tariffs or to order the states to pass tariffs

Critics believed that Spain might have______________________ if the U.S had possessed a strong __________________________.

continued to negotiate, military

Most states did not _______________________________ in trade matters.

corporate

Many leaders began to ________________________________ the national government.

criticize

American exports _______________________, while British good flowed freely into _________________________________________.

dropped, the United States

This unequal trade caused serious ____________________________________________________ for the new nation.

economic problems

Western _______________________ and _________________________________ were upset because they used it to send goods to eastern and foreign markets.

farmers, merchants

The economic condition of the country was _________________________________.

getting worse by the day.

Britain forces American merchants to pay _______________________________ that applied to goods such as _____________________, ________________________, _____________________, and _________________ that were grown or mined in the U.S. and then sold to Britain. This causes merchants to raise prices and the cost would be passed on to Consumers.

high tariffs, rice, tobacco, tar, oil

Inflation occurred because Congress had no power to stop states from

increasing prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money

Because the Confederation Congress had no power to regulate ________________________ As a result, trade laws differed from state to state. This made trade difficult for merchants whose businesses crossed state lines.

interstate commerce between two or more states

British ____________________________ could sell their manufactured product in the U.S. at lower prices than the goods made in ____________________.

merchants, Britain

After the Revolutionary War, mosts states had a hard time ________________________ and struggled to collect overdue __________.

paying off war debts, taxes

Britain closed many of its __________________ to American ships.

ports

These leaders believed that the national government needed to be more ______________________.

powerful

Some states began to_________________________________. The result is inflation. This money had no real value, because states did not have _________________ or ______________ reserves to back it up.

print large amounts of paper money, gold, silver

Congress tried to work out an agreement with Spain, but the plan did not ______________________________.

receive a majority vote in congress.

If one state passed a tariff, the British could simply

sell their goods in another state

What made debtors in Rhode island very happy? Please explain in detail..

the legislature was printing large amounts of paper money. This made the people that owe money happy because they could pay back their debts with paper money that was worth less than the coins they had borrowed.

Instead, they would work to increase ___________________________________________ rather than working to improve the trade situation for the ________________.

their own trade, whole country

Britain continued be slow to withdraw from the area. A British official warned against the U.S. trying to seize the forts by force. He said that any attempt to do so would be opposed by the________________________________________ after the revolution.

thousands of British soldiers who had settled in Canada

In addition to international trade issues, there were other challenges such as:

trade ruble's among the states, war debts, a weak economy plagued the states

The U.S. wanted to gain control of these because they protected _____________________________ and __________________________ routes.

valuable land, fur-trade