4. Creating a Government - Memory Monday

The first constitution/government for the United States

• Articles of Confederation

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Treaty of Paris

• First Continental Congress

Under the Articles of Confederation, who had more power - the states or the national government

• States

• National government

What was the effect of Shays' Rebellion?

• Farmers were upset and marched on the arsenal

• Massachusetts ordered the farmers to sell land to pay of debts

• There was a money shortage in the United States after the war

• It showed how weak the national government was.

Where it the Northwest Territory located?

Organize these options into strengths or weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Groups:

(a) Strength of the AOC

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(b) Weakness of the AOC

• All states have to approve amendments

• Made the Northwest Ordinance

• Could not draft an army

• National government was weak

• Laws needed approval by 9/13

• Ran the US government during the American Revolution

• Congress could not tax

• Declare war and make treaties

Representation in Congress would be based on population.

Wanted 3 branches with two houses in Congress.

Liked by highly-populated states such as Virginia and Pennsylvania.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• 3/5th Compromise

Representation in Congress would be equal.

Wanted 3 branches with only one house in Congress. 

Liked by small, less populated states.

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• 3/5th Compromise

Created a two-house Congress: House of Representatives based on population and Senate one equal representation (two per state).

• New Jersey Plan

• Virginia Plan

• Great Compromise

• 3/5ths Compromise

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Federalist

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(b) Antifederalist

• For ratification of the Constitution

• Patrick Henry and George Mason

• Wanted a Bill of Rights

• Hamilton, Madison, and John Jay

• Against ratification of the Constitution

Essays written to influence the ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist Papers

• Common Sense

• The Crisis

• Declaration of Independence