October 17, 2014 Turn in all late work –Vocabulary List #7 –Facebook Profile Sheet Add the following to your table of contents: –Articles of Confederation.

October 17, 2014

• Turn in all late work– Vocabulary List #7– Facebook Profile Sheet

• Add the following to your table of contents: – Articles of Confederation Notes #26

• Warm-Up: Finish DOI questions from yesterday

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

The first system of government designed by the Founding Fathers was a Confederation. Under a

Confederate system, the National or Central Government is given only a few powers, while most

of the power is given to the States.

Why did the Founding Fathers Choose a Confederation plan of government?

The Articles of Confederation

• During the Revolution, the new U.S. needed a working government

• States would keep sovereignty (self rule)

• Due to past experience with the British, Americans were afraid that a strong central government would create tyranny, and stamp out the peoples natural God given rights

Accomplishments of the Articles of Confederation

• Ran the 7-year Revolutionary war effort

• Negotiated the Treaty of Paris with Britain in 1783

• Established the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Map of the land settled in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Northwest Ordinance

• Congress would appoint a territorial governor.

• When a territory reached 5,000 voting residents, the settlers could write a temporary constitution and elect their own government.

• When population of territory reached 60,000, settlers could apply for statehood.

Map of the land settled under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Created a clear, orderly process by which new territories in the west could become states.

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

Strengths and Weaknesses of the AOC

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation

Congress was given Congress was given the power to:the power to:

America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

Declare War &

Establish an Army/Navy

No Power to Draft Soldiers

No power to raise funds for an army or navy

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation

Congress was given Congress was given the power to:the power to:

America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

Make Peace & Sign Treaties

No Power to Enforce Treaties

or trade agreements Hear disputes among

the states related to trade or boundaries

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation

Congress was given Congress was given the power to:the power to:

America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

Borrow Money No Power to Collect Taxes

from the States to repay loans

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation

Congress was given Congress was given the power to:the power to:

America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

Organize a

Post Office

No Power to Collect Taxes

from the States to run post

office

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation

Congress was given Congress was given the power to:the power to:

America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

No Chief Executive

No national court system

No Power to regulate (control) Interstate Commerce (trade)

No National Currency

Difficult to Pass laws (2/3 vote)

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation

Congress was given Congress was given the power to:the power to:

America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

Difficult to Amend the

Articles

(unanimous vote needed to change the

articles)

US Difficulties after the War

• Britain refused to turn over its forts in U.S. territory to American control.

• Britain closed off trade with the British West Indies and imposed high tariffs on American merchants. Tariffs are taxes on imports and exports.

• Spain closed the lower Mississippi to shipping.

US Difficulties after the War

• England closed markets in the British West Indies and imposed high tariffs (taxes on imports/exports) on American merchants. This caused American exports to drop.

• Cheap British goods flowed into the United States.

• The Confederation Congress had no authority to pass tariffs, or order states to pass tariffs, to help correct unequal trade with Britain

• States worked independently to increase their own trade instead of improving the situation for the whole country.

• American merchants were forced to look for new markets in China, France, and the Netherlands.

You are going to be looking at a picture in a few seconds? See if you can figure out what is going on in the picture. Look at the picture closely.

October 21, 2014

• Turn in all late work

• Warm-Up (ON THE INDEX CARD):– The purpose of the Federalist papers was to

• A. encourage literacy• B. persuade Americans to support the Constitution• C. sue the Anti-federalists• D. Create the blueprints of the federal government

• Turn to assignment #26

• The American Revolution ended in 1783• The money paid to the soldiers who had fought in the

Revolution was worthless. • This was because the government was not allowed to

raise taxes in the Articles of Confederation. • As a result, the farmers were unable to pay their

debts.

Shays’ Rebellion

• The farmers were taken into court, then into jail, and their land was taken away from them.

• In 1786, Daniel Shays led an armed revolt by farmers against the state government.

• The farmers began to forcibly prevent the courts from meeting so they couldn’t take anyone else’s land away or put them in jail.

• Early in 1787, the Governor sent 4,400 men against the rebels and the rebels were defeated.

Soldiers fire on protesters during Shays’ Rebellion

• Shays’ Rebellion showed the leaders of America that the Articles of Confederation were too weak, and a stronger national government was needed.

• The nation needed to function as ONE united country & not 13 small unorganized nations.

• This would lead to the creation of a whole new constitution

Results of Shays’ Rebellion

Constitutional Convention