Week 4.1 articles of confederation

1. Articles of Confederation

Sovereignty = ?

2. Articles of Confederation

Sovereignty =the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area

3. Confederation = ? 4. Articles of Confederation

5. Confederation = system in which regional governments such as states retain sovereignty while delegating limited power to the national government 6. Free citizens did not include whom? 7. Articles of Confederation

8. Confederation = system in which regional governments such as states retain sovereignty while delegating limited power to the national government 9. Free citizens did not include whom? 10. - paupers, vagabonds, and criminals (Art. IV) 11. How many votes did each state get? 12. Articles of Confederation

13. Confederation = system in which regional governments such as states retain sovereignty while delegating limited power to the national government 14. Free citizens did not include whom? 15. - paupers, vagabonds, and criminals (Art. IV) 16. How many votes did each state get?One (Art. V) 17. How were delegates selected? 18. Articles of Confederation

19. Confederation = system in which regional governments such as states retain sovereignty while delegating limited power to the national government 20. Free citizens did not include whom? 21. - paupers, vagabonds, and criminals (Art. IV) 22. How were delegates selected? 23. - Appointed by the state legislatures in whatever manner the individual states determined 24. Articles of Confederation cont.

Written by Second Continential Congress & sent to states for ratification in 1777.

25. Ratification = ? 26. Articles of Confederation cont.

27. Ratification = formal approval process of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty 28. Finally ratified when? 29. Articles of Confederation cont.

30. Ratification = formal approval process of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty 31. Finally ratified when?1781 when Maryland finally approved it b/c it had to have unanimous approval. 32. Characteristics of national congress: 33. - unicameral = ? 34. Articles of Confederation cont.

35. Ratification = formal approval process of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty 36. Finally ratified when?1781 when Maryland finally approved it b/c it had to have unanimous approval. 37. Characteristics of national govt under the Articles: 38. - unicameral = only one house in the legislature 39. - no judicial or executive branch 40. - members elected for one year terms; each state had one vote no matter how large or small the state 41. What were some problems with the Articles? 42. What were some problems with the Articles?

See p. 76 of BJ Text; Congress had little power to enforce its policies:

43. - Congress had no power to levy taxes & could only ask the states for money and was therefore constantly strapped for cash 44. - Congress authorized to raise an army or navy, but only if the states would cooperate 45. - Its ineffectiveness discouraged delegates from participating so it was hard to get anything done 46. - Unanimous assent of states needed to amend the articles 47. - Congress had no power to regulate commerce or resolve disputes between the states 48. Crises of the Confederation

Annapolis Convention, 1786: Why was it called?

49. Crises of the Confederation

50. - To address disputes in the states over commerce and to devise a federal plan to regulate commerce 51. - What significant decision was made at this convention? 52. Challenges to the Confederation

53. - To address disputes in the states over commerce and to devise a federal plan to regulate commerce 54. - What significant decision was made at this convention? 55. - The 12 delegates present from only 5 states accepted Alexander Hamilton's proposal to have the delegates meet at Philadelphia in May 1787 to make changes in the federal government so that it could better govern the union 56. What event in western Massachusetts created a crisis for the Confederation? 57. Shay's Rebellion

What caused the economic depression that the country was suffering in 1780's?

58. Shay's Rebellion

59. - interstate commerce disputes which the national govt had no power to resolve 60. - issuing of inflationary paper money 61. - wartime disruptions 62. Who led the rebellion? 63. Shay's Rebellion

64. - interstate commerce disputes which the national govt had no power to resolve 65. - issuing of inflationary paper money 66. - wartime disruptions 67. Who led the rebellion? Daniel Shays 68. Who participated? 69. Shay's Rebellion

70. - interstate commerce disputes which the national govt had no power to resolve 71. - issuing of inflationary paper money 72. - wartime disruptions 73. Who led the rebellion? Daniel Shays 74. Who participated? MA farmers in debt 75. What did they do? 76. Shay's Rebellion

77. - interstate commerce disputes which the national govt had no power to resolve 78. - issuing of inflationary paper money 79. - wartime disruptions 80. Who led the rebellion? Daniel Shays 81. Who participated? MA farmers in debt 82. What did they do? 83. - they shut down county courthouses to prevent foreclosures on their farms; MA govt shut them down 84. Results of Shay's Rebellion

Confirmed fears of anarchy in the state legislatures

85. Led to support of the effort to reform the Articles of Confederation

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