A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War and immediately after.

A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution

cash crops in the South before the Civil War

George Washington's home

Complete control of a product or business by one person or group

Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, which stated that slaves who escaped must be returned to their owners. It was later abolished in...

lands northwest of the Appalachians, covered by the Land Ordinance of 1785

They organized the continental Army, called on the colonies to send troops, selected George Washington to lead the army, and appointed the comittee to...

said slavery wouldn't spread to new territories and southerners did not care because they did not think slavery fit into western economy

James Madison's plantation

American Revolutionary leader from Virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the Bill of Rights (1725-1792); wrote the Virginia Declaration of...

a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed