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Post Revolutionary War America

Post Revolutionary War America. Congress was the dominant force but it was limited by rules All bills required 2/3 vote for passage Any amendment required a unanimous vote Each state had 1 vote No power to regulate commerce No tax enforcement power. Congressional Actions.

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Post Revolutionary War America

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  1. Post Revolutionary War America • Congress was the dominant force • but it was limited by rules • All bills required 2/3 vote for passage • Any amendment required a unanimous vote • Each state had 1 vote • No power to regulate commerce • No tax enforcement power

  2. Congressional Actions • Land Ordinance of 1785 • Northwest territory land sold to pay off debt • Land divided into townships six miles square (then into 36 sections of one square mile each) • One section reserved for a public school

  3. Northwest Ordinance of 1787 • Territories established, which could eventually become states on an equal basis with the original 13 • Needed a minimum of 60,000 inhabitants • Slavery forbidden in Northwest

  4. Domestic Disturbance • Shays' Rebellion (1786) • broke out in western Massachusetts • frustrated farmers losing their farms due to mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies • Massachusetts authority put down the uprising with force (killing three) • Leaders throughout the nation worried about the potential of domestic unrest

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