What is a constitution Why were the Articles of confederation written When were the Articles of Confederation written Do we still follow the Articles of Confederation today Name the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation ID: 717336
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The Articles of ConfederationSlide2
What is a constitution?
Why were the Articles of confederation written?
When were the Articles of Confederation written?
Do we still follow the Articles of Confederation today?
Name the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.Slide3
The Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation:
Provided for a weak national government
Gave Congress no power to tax or regulate commerce among the states
Provided for no common currency
Gave each state one vote regardless of size
Provided for no executive or judicial branchesSlide4
Constitution
A set of rules or laws
Raise your hand before speaking.
Respect others’ propertySlide5
The Articles of Confederation
First
constitution (set of rules or laws)
of the New Country called the United States of AmericaSlide6
1776
Declaration of Independence
was approved-Slide7
1777
Date the Articles of confederation was written
.Slide8
1781
The Articles of Confederation went into effect a few months
before
the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.Slide9
1781
The
surrender of Lord Cornwallis
-ending the Revolutionary War - Also called
The American Revolution.Slide10
Weaknesses of The Articles of Confederation
The confederation of delegates had a difficult time writing the first constitution, a plan of government, because at this time in history, no other country in the world had a government similar to what the delegates wanted. Slide11
The Articles of Confederation:
Provided for a weak National Government…..because…..Slide12
The delegates wanted strong leaders -but feared that if they gave the government too much power it could turn even good leaders bad. And they certainly didn’t want to be ruled by another king.
Good BadSlide13
Each of the 13 Original Colonies wanted to be their “own little country”.Slide14
The Articles of Confederation:
Gave Congress
NO
power to…Slide15
…tax the colonists or…Slide16
…regulate (control)
commerce
(
business/buying and selling
)
between the states (interstate)
and other countriesSlide17
The Articles of Confederation:
Provided for
NO
common currency
(
same kind of money
)Slide18Slide19
The Articles of Confederation:
Gave
each
state
one vote (in Congress)
regardless of population size.Slide20
We all get one vote. It doesn’t matter how many people we have living in our state.Slide21
We have more people in Massachusetts. We should get more votes.
No, the Articles of Confederation say you get only one vote.Slide22
The Articles of Confederation:
Provided for no Executive…Slide23
(The president is the head of the Executive Branch.)Slide24
Or Judicial
Branch(The Court System-determines if laws are constitutional)of
GovernmentSlide25
Congress could do some things, but could not do other things:Slide26
The Articles of ConfederationSlide27
Because of the
weaknesses
of the Articles of Confederation it lasted only from
1777-1788
.Slide28
The Articles of Confederation was replaced with The
United States
Constituion
that we still use today
.Slide29
Review…
What is a constitution?
Why were the Articles of confederation written?
When were the Articles of Confederation written?
Do we still follow the Articles of Confederation today?
Name the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.