These are the great lakes. I'm not sure about the second part of your question though.
Drafted and adopted by the Congress in 1777 but not ratified until 1781, it effectively established the U.S. as a collection of 13 sovereign states, each of which had an equal voice in Congress (which became officially known as the Congress of the Confederation) regardless of population.
<span>B) President Wilson convinced the Senate to ratify U.S. membership.
</span><span>US membership wasn't ratified..</span>
He divided the government into 3 branches