Analyzing Features of the Articles of Confederation

BIG IDEA: Federal Power - America needs unity and coordination among states, so it is
necessary that some powers are given to central, federal government.

Visual Feature Reason this was included Possible problems with this
in the Articles of feature.
Confederation.

1 No Chief Executive To prevent the rise of an No one to watch over the

over-powerful federal governments.
government.

2 Laws needed 9/13 of So that a large majority No one can ever agree on
the colony’s votes to have been appealed to. everything.
be approved.

3 The legislative So that the people did not States could choose not to pay
branch (Congress) get overtaxed. taxes. This could result in the
did not have the federal government not having
power to tax citizens. the funds to operate effectively.
It could only request
tax money from the
states.

4 The legislative To prevent unnecessary It would be difficult to gain an

branch did not have warfare. army.
the power to draft
an army. It could
only request states to
send men for
military services.

5 There was no federal To prevent the federal Larger disputes between states
court system. government from gaining should have been handled by a
too much power over the higher power.
states.

6 Any amendments To prevent rash decisions. It would be very difficult for all
(changes) to the states to agree.
Articles had to be
approved by all 13
states.

7 The legislative To keep state and federal The federal government could
branch did not have government separate. run out of money.
the power to collect
state debts owed to
the national
government.
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 8 The legislative
branch did not have
the power to settle
disputes among
states.
States did not want to have Civil war could easily occur.
a national authority telling
them what to do.

9 Shays’ Rebellion: What was the
result of Shays’ Rebellion? Include
an excerpt from the text in your
answer.
“Many Americans saw Shay’s Rebellion as a
sign the Articles of Confederation didn't work.”
This prompted the formation of the
Constitutional Convention.

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