Articles of Confederation

What was the main weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• the federal government was too weak

• It had no legislative branch

• The judicial was too powerful

• The executive was too powerful

A weakness of the Articles of Confederation is that it had __________ . 

• only an executive branch
• only a legislative branch
• only a judicial branch
• an executive and legislative branch

One major problem with the Articles of Confederation is that Congress could not ______ the citizens to raise money.

• tax
• ask
• demand
• force

Who had more power under the Articles of Confederation?

• Federal Government
• State Governments
• Individual people
• States with larger populations

Americans were afraid that a __?__ would lead to tyranny, or oppressive rule.

• strong state government
• weak government
• strong central government
• legslature

For any changes to the Articles or new laws Congress needed ______ 13 states to agree.

• 9 of the

• 7 of the

• 6 of the

• 10 of the

The Articles of Confederation made our country _________

• Strong

• Weak

• Powerful

• normal

Because this branch was missing under the Articles of Confederation the government had no power to enforce its laws?

• Judicial

• Legislative

• Executive

• Congress

• That the people were not to be trusted

• That the Articles of Confederation was too weak

• That state governments were too strong

• That more laws needed to be passed