1 / 9

Unit 2: The American Revolution

Unit 2: The American Revolution. Lesson 4: The Articles of Confederation. Bell Ringer. A New Government. Prior to the war ending, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777 as the colonies’ first form of centralized government

gaurav
Download Presentation

Unit 2: The American Revolution

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Unit 2: The American Revolution Lesson 4: The Articles of Confederation

  2. Bell Ringer

  3. A New Government Prior to the war ending, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777 as the colonies’ first form of centralized government The Articles were a plan for a loose union, or confederation, which would be under the authority of the Continental Congress -The Articles were designed to be weak because the colonies did not want a powerful central government WHY??

  4. Articles of Confederation • There were some strengths • Adding new states-- Northwest Ordinance • BUT…there were more weaknesses • The central government was EXTREMELY WEAK • Could not raise taxes • Could not regulate trade • Could not enforce treaties • Very difficult to pass laws and amendments

  5. A sign of weakness: Shays Rebellion Video ... a sweet video To pay off it’s war debts, Massachusetts raised taxes, which heavily affected farmers When farmers couldn’t pay the high taxes, their farms were taken Daniel Shays, a Massachusetts farmer and former captain in the Continental Army, led a short lived rebellion against the state in protest against the taxes

  6. Why the Articles Failed The Articles proved to be too weak The central government was too limited in what it could do

  7. Time to change Though unsuccessful, Shays’ Rebellioncaused concern for those in power that states might take property away from the wealthy Shays’ Rebellion, and the weaknesses of the Articles, convinced the Confederation Congress that a convention of the states needed to be called in order to revise the Articles In May 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia at the Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles

  8. Constitutional Convention The delegates in Philadelphia decided not to revise the Articles, but rather to write an entirely new document The delegates kept the meetings a secret, as not to have outside pressure and opinions put upon them

  9. Exit Ticket! Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation do you think was the most damaging to the new Republic? What was the original goal of the Constitutional Convention?

More Related