HW - Articles of Confederation

What was the name of the first government of the United States?

• The Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• The government

• The Preamble

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was given the power to raise ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   , but did not have the power to ​ (c)  

• armies
• declare war
• make taxes

The American people wanted a​ (a)   government for the Articles of Confederation because they just fought to remove the ​ (b)   government in the American Revolution, who the Americans thought was too ​ (c)  

• weak
• British
• strong
• American
• President
• Congress
• Supreme Court

The definition of ​ (a)   is the system or group of people governing a country, state, or other organization.

• government
• govern
• Articles of Confederation
• taxes
• president

The definition of ​ (a)   is to control, influence, or regulate a country, state, or other organization.

• govern
• Articles of Confederation
• taxes
• president

As a result, under the ​ (a)   , the individual ​ (b)   like ​ (c)   had more power than the ​ (d)   government. This eventually led to ​ (e)   between states that were supposed to be united.

• Articles of Confederation
• states
• New York
• federal
• conflict

A ​ (a)   is a government where states have most of the power, not the federal government (Congress, President, Supreme Court)

• confederacy
• dictatorship
• democracy
• monarchy

All ​ (a)   states had to approve a change to the Articles of Confederation, which made it ​ (b)   to improve an already ​ (c)   government.

• 13
• very hard
• bad
• great
• very easy
• 50

Congress had the power to ​ (a)   but had no way to actually force the people to ​ (b)   to the law.

• make laws
• listen
• make taxes
• pay

Under the Articles of Confederation, there was no ​ (a)   . Any law could be made, and there was no system in place for the ​ (b)   government to decide whether ​ (c)   laws were ​ (d)   or unfair.

• Supreme Court
• federal
• state
• fair