Articles of Confederation/Shays' Rebellion

What is the name of the first written plan of government in America?

• Constitution
• Treaty of Paris
• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation

Who had more power under the Articles of Confederation?

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

What happened as a result of Shays' Rebellion?

• A national army was immediately created through a unanimous vote in Congress.

• The Constitutional Convention meeting was called to discuss the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

• Massachusetts changed its laws so that farmers would not have their land seized.

• Revolutionary War veterans were finally paid for their service.

The national/federal government under the Articles of Confederation...

• Was very strong

• Was very weak

How could the national/federal government get money under the Articles of Confederation?

• By taxing citizens

• By trading with Native Americans

• By asking states for donations

Why were farmers in Massachusetts so upset in 1786 and 1787?

• The US was getting ready to go to war with France and they'd have to be soldiers again

• The national government kept raising taxes on farmers to pay off the war debt

• They were losing their farms because they could not afford the taxes on them

• No one would buy their crops because they were over priced

Who had more power under the Articles of Confederation?

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

What were the Articles of Confederation?

• our first attempt at a government

• the Declaration of Independence

• the treaty that ended the war

• George Washington's plan

In the fall of 1787, because of Shays' Rebellion, what did government leaders do?

• They decided Massachusetts couldn't be a state anymore

• They allowed all the states to become independent countries

• They met at the Constitutional Convention to fix the Articles of Confederation

• They switched to a French model of government

Shays's Rebellion ....

• exposed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation in its inability to provide security for the country.

• led the country to repeal the Articles of Confederation and adopt the Constitution of the United States.

• was a minor incident that had very little effect on the early government of America.

• was America's first punk rock band.