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NOTES: The Articles of Confederation
KEY IDEA: ____________ fears had a big effect upon the design of the first government for our country, the Articles of Confederation.
PROBLEM #1: The FEAR of creating a strong national government.
A. A ___________________ government was needed to:
1. Control ________________ among the states
2. Control ________________ between ________________ and __________________________
3. Manage conflicts among states about such issues as ______________________.
B. Once war against Great Britain started, each state was like a _________________________________ with its own constitution and government.
1. The people were used to participating in their ______________ governments.
2. The people could elect members of their __________________________ to represent their interests in their state legislatures.
3. The people were worried about a central government that was too _______________________ as well as _______________________________________.
4. SO, the people believed that government is best when it is _________________ to the people. The people could then _____________________ it and make certain that it did not violate their rights.
5. Republican government can only succeed in small communities where people _____________ common _______________ and ________________________.
SOLUTION #1: Create a ____________ national government.
A. In the Articles of Confederation, there was ___________ a _________________________________.
1. There were no executive or judicial branches:
a. There was no _____________________________
b. There was no ______________________________________
B. Most of the power of government remained with the ______________________
C. The national government had ___________________ power over the states and their citizens.
D. Congress did _____________ have the power to ____________________________ from the states or from the people directly. It could only ____________________ money from the state governments, which were ___________________________ to raise the money from their citizens.
E. Congress did _____________ have the power to regulate (make rules about) __________________ among the various states.
PROBLEM #2: The FEAR that some states would dominate others in the national government.
A. Decisions in Congress would be made by ___________________ vote.
B. Would each state have ____________ vote, or would states with greater ________________________ or wealth be given more votes than others?
SOLUTION #2: Give each state ONE vote.
A. The Articles also provided that on important matters – for example, whether to declare war – nine states would have to agree. This way the seven smaller states could not outvote the six larger states.
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|WEAKNESSES in the Articles of Confederation |
|Notes to accompany the Play |
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|1. (Acts 1 & 2) ________________________________________________________________________ |
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|A. Congress had no power to collect taxes! All it could do was _______________ money from the |
|state governments. |
|B. Congress had borrowed a lot of money from Americans and foreigners to fight the Revolutionary |
|War. They had no way to pay it back. When Congress asked the states to give the national |
|government $10 million, the states only gave $1.5 million. |
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|2. (Act 3) ____________________________________________________________________________ |
|__________________________________________________________________________________ |
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|A. If members of a state government or citizens within a state disobeyed a request made by the |
|national government, there was no way the national government could make them obey. |
|B. When the war was over, the national government signed a peace treaty with Great Britain called the Treaty of Paris. It was intended to protect the rights |
|of loyalists, people who were living in the United States but who were still loyal to Great Britain. The new national government could not uphold this treaty |
|because it could not force the states to give the loyalists back their property that had been confiscated during the war. It could also not force citizens to |
|pay back money that was owed to the loyalists. |
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|3. (Act 4) ______________________________________________________________________ |
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|A. Although Congress had the power to make agreements with foreign nations, it did not have the power to make state governments live up to these agreements. |
|So some citizens imported goods from other nations and then refused to pay for them! Not surprisingly, people in foreign countries became reluctant to trade |
|with people in the United States. |
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|4. (Act 5) ______________________________________________________________________ |
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|A. Congress had no power to make laws that regulated the trade between the states. So some states levied taxes on goods passing through them to other states. |
|For example, both New York and Pennsylvania taxed goods going to New Jersey! |
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|5. _____________________________________________________________________________ |
|A. The state legislatures were becoming too corrupt. Representatives with common interests were joining together in factions. James Madison defined a faction|
|as a group of people that seeks to promote its own interests above the interests of other individuals or groups. They were making laws that benefited |
|themselves and not the common good. They cancelled debts and confiscated the property of loyalists. |
|Ironically, people began to argue that there was too much democracy in the state governments. They argued that majority rule, when the majority pursued its own|
|selfish interests at the expense of the rights of others, was every bit as dangerous as that of an uncontrolled king. This was almost like tyranny! |
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