Articles of Confederation & Continental Convention Review

What is a confederation?

• FBI agents that are not real, but fake

• A large group of people split into smaller groups

• An organization of many smaller groups into one large group

• In the Civil War, it was the Southern army

Why would some colonies not want to unify?

• they thought is was a bad idea to split into thirteen different countries

• they feared they would be controlled as they had been with Britain

• they were small and felt like the larger states would take advantage of them

• they wanted to be their own separate country

After the Declaration of Independence was signed, what did the Second Continental Congress decide?

• That they needed a strong national government

• That they needed a weak national government and strong state governments

• that they had a country to rule

• That Thomas Jefferson did not pay the lunch bill he promised to pay

The Articles of Confederation gave most of the power to _________________________.

• the president

• the federal courts

• the national government

• the states

What percent of the national Congress had to agree in order to create or change laws?

• 50%

• 70%

• 80%

• It had to be unanimous.

What percentage of the states had to agree to make changes to the Articles of Confederation?

• 50%

• 70%

• 80%

• It had to be unanimous.

Which if the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• It had a national government that had too much power

• It had a very weak national government

• It did not give enough power to the states

• the court system had too much power

Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• the federal court system had too much power

• it gave all the power to the national government

• it gave all the power to the president

• it did not have a federal court system

Why did the weak national government hurt the country?

• The states were being run like thirteen different countries.

• The laws were inconsistent from state to state.

• Congress had no power to collect taxes.

• All answers listed

Why were the larger states angry with the Articles of Confederation?

• they did not like that all states were treated equally

• the did not like that all states were not treated equally

• they did not like Massachusetts because it got all the attention

• they didn't like some of the language used