Review and Articles

Review

• Declaration of Independence

• Northwest Ordinance

Multiple Choice

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ..."

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

Multiple Choice

"[A]ll men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with ... Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness ..."

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

Categorize

Options (9)

List of Grievence

Right to alter or abolish government

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness

Unalienable Rights

Equal footing doctrine

Prohibition of slavery

Public education

Religious freedom

Admission of new states

Organize these options into the right categories

Declaration of Independence

Northwest Ordinance

Labelling

Match these to the correct people (drag and drop)

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Natural Rights

Strong Ruler

Social Contract/ consent of the governed

Social Contract/ Absolute Monarch

Drag and Drop

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life

liberty

property

Pursuit of happiness

Multiple Choice

The primary purpose of the Northwest Ordinance was to

• Set guidelines for new states to enter the Union

• To outlaw slavery in the US

• To break up with England

• To add a Bill of Rights to America

Multiple Choice

The primary purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to

• create guidelines for new states to enter the Union

• Stop British control over the colonies

• Create a government for the United States

• Create rights for those accused of a crime

Multiple Choice

A provision of the Northwest Ordinance is shown.

[S]uch State shall be admitted ... into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever …

Describe the purpose of this provision.

• Did not allow for one state to hold more power than another state

• It allowed for each state to have their own constitutions

• It made it so the original thirteen colonies held more power

• It gave sole power of the states over to the executive branch

Multiple Choice

Under the Northwest Ordinance:

All communities had to start schools.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Under the Northwest Ordinance:

A Kentucky farmer could move to Ohio and bring his slaves with him to work his Ohio farm.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Under the Northwest Ordinance:

After becoming a state, Ohio's Representatives would only be allowed to vote on certain types of laws in the US Congress, because it was not one of the original 13 states.

• Yes

• No

Draw

Color in the states that were part of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

The following is
NEW MATERIAL

We are growing BUT how do we GOVERN!

America's first attempt at government...it did NOT go well!

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The Articles of Confederation

Turns out we had no idea what we were doing!

Fearing that the government they create would end up just like the King they overthrew, the newly freed colonists create a weak government.

Weaknesses of the Articles:

The Articles were weak and didn’t give Congress the power it needed to do important government tasks like: collect taxes, raise an army, or regulate commerce.
- Meaning that the government lacked a lot of the power needed to make things happen.

Weaknesses of the Articles:

​Under the Articles of Confederation There was one branch of government (Congress)
-Meaning there was not a president
or a supreme court!

Weaknesses of the Articles:

All states must agree to change the Articles
- this made changing anything impossible!

For the following slides you are given part of the Articles of Confederation. Read it (what is in orange is explaining the article) and then explain if it is a STRENGTH (good) or WEAKNESS (bad).

​DIRECTIONS:

Open Ended

• The new confederacy will be called “The United States of America”

  • In a confederacy, the individual states retain all the real power, and only allow a central government to have certain, limited powers. 

  • Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain.

Open Ended

• Each state gets to stay independent and free.

  • This meant that each state was, in essence, an independent “country.”

• States get to keep "every power, jurisdiction, and right" not given to the national government.

  • Which is pretty much all of them.

• Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? EXPLAIN.

Open Ended

• States have to respect the legal rulings of other states. There was not one supreme court of law for all states.

  • No saying, "I thought it was legal over there!"

  Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain.

Open Ended

• States decide how to choose delegates for the national Congress. They can recall their delegates and replace them at any time.

  • If Congress was considering passing a new tax, states could prevent even having a vote by deciding to recall its delegates and effectively “shutting down” the government.

• Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain

Open Ended

• Each state gets one vote.

  • This meant that each state was represented equally, no matter how big or small! 

• Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain.

Open Ended

• The Articles can only be changed if Congress and all of the state legislatures agree.

• This meant that even if only one state objected, the Articles of Confederation could not be changed.

• Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain.

Open Ended

• Expenses from wars and other matters of the national government will be paid for out of a national treasury.

• States will be responsible for collecting taxes and sending them to the national government by themselves.

  • The national government had no way to enforce collecting taxes; it basically had to “ask nicely.”

• Is this a STRENGH or WEAKNESS? Explain

Open Ended

• The United States Congress has authority on all matters of war and foreign policy.

  • Except there was no “Executive Branch” to help oversee and carry out many of these functions.

• Congress has legal jurisdiction in arguments between the states about land and borders.

  • Notice that there is no “Supreme Court” either - just one branch of government.

• Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain.

Open Ended

• The Confederation accepts war debt from before the Articles.

  • This meant that the Confederation took on a very heavy load of debt from the start.

• Is this a STRENGTH or WEAKNESS? Explain.