Aim: To evaluate the success of The Articles of Confederation.

Resources: PPT and Readings Pack

1) What were the Articles of Confederation?

2) What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?

3) What were some key features of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

Grid A

What could Congress do? What could Congress not do?

Conduct foreign affairs-make war/peace Cannot tax
Negotiate boundary disputes between states Cannot Raise troops
Amend the articles with all 13 states votes needed Cannot Regulate interstate or foreign
trade/commerce.
Pass laws with 9/13 states Had no executive
Coin/ borrow $ Had no Supreme Court.
Couldn’t stop states from using their own money.
4) Identify four specific challenges (military, economic, foreign, and domestic) that the Confederation faced
after the American Revolution:
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3.

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5) Explain: How the rules of the Articles might have contributed to each of these problems (See Grid A)
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2.

3.

4.

6) What was Shay’s Rebellion and how did it lead a meeting to amend he Articles of Confederation?

7) What was the 3/5 Compromise?

8) What was the New Jersey Plan

9) What was the Virginia Plan?

10 Who were the Federalists? Who were the Antifederalists?

11) What were the Federalist Papers?

12) What was added to the Constitution to ease the fears of the Anti-Federalists?

13) How was the outcome of the Whiskey Rebellion different than Shays Rebellion?

Terms:

Articles of Confederation

Land Ordinance

Northwest Ordinance
Shays Rebellion

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Great Compromise

3/5th Compromise

Federalist Papers

James Madison

Alexander Hamilton

SKIP Rebellion
Whiskey

SKIP and effects of the War of 1812

17)What were the causes

Causes: Effects: