Articles of Confederation

Question 1

What was the uniting goal of all the states after the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

independence

Question 2

What were all the states relucant to?

Answer 2

a strong central government

Question 3

What type of system did the republicans favor?

Answer 3

republic

Question 4

What is a republic?

Answer 4

a government which citizens rule through elected representatives

Question 5

What is republicanism

Answer 5

the ideas that government should be based on the consent of the people

Question 6

What did state constitutions do?

Answer 6

limited the powers of government leaders and guaranteed specific rights; they aslo varied greatly in giving its citizens the right to vote

Question 7

What were three questions the Continental Congress had to answer?

Answer 7

1. Representation? By state or popoulation?
2. Can supreme power be divided?
3. Who gets the western lands?

Question 8

How many votes did each state get?

Answer 8

1, no matter the size, wealth or populations

Question 9

What was the name of the type of government that the Continental Congress created?

Answer 9

Articles of Confederation

Question 10

According to the AoC, what were the two levels of power?

Answer 10

state government was supreme in some matters and the national government was supreme in others

Question 11

What were the 7 things that the AoC gave the national government?

Answer 11

• declare war
• make peace
• sign treaties
• borrow $$
• set standards for coins and weights
• establish a postal service
• deal with Native American Affairs

Question 12

What were two big things that the AoC didn’t create?

Answer 12

an executive and legislative branches

Question 13

When did the AoC start its effect? What was the hold up?

Answer 13

1781 because all the states had to approve

Question 14

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 14

established a plan for surveying the land west of ht Appalachians

Question 15

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 15

divided the lands into territories and set requirements for admission of new states

Question 16

Describe the town ships

Answer 16

• 6x6 miles
• each section was 1 square mile
• $1.00 per mile
• section 16 was dedicated to school

Question 17

3 stages of becoming a state

Answer 17

1. Congress would appoint a territorial governor
2. when the territory reached 5,000 voting residents, the settlers could write a temporary constitution and elece their own governor
3. when the territory reached 60,000 residents, they cuild write a state constitution to be approved by Congress

Question 18

What were some of the extreme weaknesses of the AoC?

Answer 18

1. laced national unity
2. Congress could not regulate interstate or foreign trade
3. changes could onlt be amde unanimously
4. Congress did ot recognize pop difference
5. Congress could not tax to pay off war debt
6. no exectuive or judicial branch