Articles of Confederation Day 2

Articles of Confederation Day 2

November 5, 2020

Remember from yesterday's lesson

the National Government Could Not Tax

Not being able to Tax came with problems:

• No taxes=no money to run the country or create and pay for a military (army and navy) to protect the new nation.

  
  

• Congress could not collect taxes from the states

Under the Articles of Confederation:

There was no enforcement of power

There were more issues with the Articles of Confederation

• Congress could not regulate trade between states or with foreign countries.  

  
  

• States had their own trading policies and regulations with other states.

so...... Since.......There was no regulation between the States...

Congress could not make laws about the types of goods coming into the country, so states were entering individually into trade agreements with foreign nations

Open Ended

If the government could not regulate trade between the states, what would state relations be like?

Answer:

 State trade relationships would be very tense, like the international example. States could set their own regulations and taxes, thus creating slow and expensive processes for trading. If certain states set a ban on trading with other states, states could prohibit the movement of goods through their state (creating geographical trade issues).

Open Ended

What do you think?

If Congress could not collect taxes from the states, What would the United States be like?

Multiple Choice

What does the word "Veto" mean?

• to make a silly decision

• to look at someone in the eyes

• to have fun all the time

• to vote against and block a decision

Multiple Select

Choose all the things that the U.S. government could not do

• make laws

• establish a national army

• make people obey the laws

• regulate trade

Multiple Choice

The Articles of Confederation created a ______________ central government

• Strong

• Weak

• moderate

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the government that the colonial representatives came up with

• The constitution of the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• National Governement

• Central Government

Does anyone have any questions?

Your assignment is on canvas, please take the remainder of class to work on it.