11/30 What are some things we need now that we are our own Nation? List as many things as you can. Moves on the chart.
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1 11/30 What are some things we need now that we are our own Nation? List as many things as you can. Moves on the chart.
2 12/1 Predict some problems moving forward under one gov t: (Think back to some issues we faced when trying to create one gov t) Why might Americans be worried about having a president? How did states already balance power in their local state gov t? ALL FOR MOVES ON THE CHART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 Warm Up 1/6 1.Why did Americans not want to give too much power to one person? 2.How did the states attempt to balance power? 3.What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? Strengths?
4 1. What part of the Treaty of Paris did Britain ignore? The British kept troops at frontier posts in American Territory.
5 It s a plan of Government. 2. Define Constitution-
6 3. Why were Americans worried about giving too much power to one ruler? Their experience with British rule made Americans cautious about giving power to one person.
7 4. What did most states establish to help balance power? Most states had a Governor and a legislative body. Some states further balanced power by creating a bicameral legislature (two house)
8 5. Who was allowed to vote for these state legislatures? Males who were at least 21 years old and owned land.
9 6. What did Americans agree on about their central Gov t? That it should be a Republic! A Gov t in which citizens rule through elected representatives.
10 7. What did most Americans want the Central Gov t to be? WEAK! They wanted the colonies to act like small independent countries.
11 8. When would the colonies work together through their Central Gov t? Only to wage war and handle relations with other nations.
12 9. When were the Articles of Confederation adopted? November 1777
13 10. How much power did the States give up under the Articles of Confederation? Very Little. Firm League of Friendship.
14 11. What powers did Congress get under the Articles? Conduct Foreign Affairs. Maintain Armed Forces. Borrow Money. Issue Currency.
15 12. What couldn t the Congress do? Couldn t regulate trade. Force citizens to join Army. Impose taxes. If the Congress needed money or troops they had to ask the States! Also lacked a Chief Executive.
16 13. What business did the Confederation Gov t conduct? Selling Western Lands through Congressional Committees.
17 14. How many votes did each state get under the Articles? One, regardless of its population. All states had to approve the Articles as well as amendments.
18 15. Had did the larger states feel about having one vote? They felt they should have more than one vote due to their larger population.
19 16. When did the Articles of Confederation formally become the Gov t of the United States? March 1, 1781.
20 17. Were the Articles of Confederation effective? NO! They did not provide America a strong enough Gov t to face the problems it had.
21 18. Why was it difficult for the Congress to pass laws? Nine states needed to approve the law. Any attempt to change the Articles required all 13 states.
22 19. What things did the Confederation Congress Accomplish? Won their independence! Expanded Foreign Trade. Settling and Governing the nation s western territories.
23 Warm Up 1/7 4. How many people now lived west of the Appalachian Mountains? 5. What two ordinances attempted to help settlers settle the area peacefully? 6. List problems occurring with Britain? List problems occurring with Spain?
24 20. How many people lived west of the Appalachian Mountains by 1790? 120,000 These settlers wanted to join the Union. Articles of Confederation had no procedure for adding new states.
25 21. How could these new districts become states eventually? When the population of a district reached the population of the smallest state, then that district could petition for statehood.
26 22. What did the Confederation Congress pass in 1785? An ordinance, or law, that established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio River.
27 23. Why did Richard Henry Lee want property rights clearly defined? He did not want lawless people moving into the new territory and taking lands unfairly.
28 24. What did the Northwest ordinance create? A single Northwest Territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and East of the Mississippi.
29 25. When could the territories here apply for statehood? When the population reached 60,000 people.
30 26. What was the one thing the new territories could not have? Slavery! 1 st time the United States attempt to stop slavery.
31 27. What happened to the money printed during the Revolutionary War? It depreciated. Fallen in value it was almost worthless.
32 28. What was not backing up these bills? No gold or silver backed up the money.
33 29. What did the Continental Congress rack up during the war? A HUGE DEBT! And then didn t have the power to tax people to pay for the debt! IRONY
34 30. Summarize the problems facing the Confederation at the end of this section? Couldn t pass a law to tax imported goods. Britain closed the West Indies to American Merchants. Couldn t repay Loyalists money for their lands. Spain closed the Mississippi River to the Americans.
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