| Term | Definition |
| It successfully waged the war for independence against Great Britain. | Achievement 1 |
| It negotiated the peace treaty, known as the Treaty of Paris, to end the American Revolution. | Achievement 2 |
| It provided that each state recognized the laws of the other states, and a citizen could travel freely from one state to another. | Achievement 3 |
| It passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. It gave people in the northwestern lands the right to organize governments. | Achievement 4 |
| Congress did not have any money or the powerto raise money. | Problem 1 |
| Congress had no power over the state governments or their citizens. | Problem 2 |
| Congress could not make the states live up to trade agreements with other nations. | Problem 3 |
| Congress had no power to regulate trade among the states. | Problem 4 |
| Citizens thought that their property rights were being threatened. | Problem 5 |