Articles of Confederation

What is the Articles of Confederation?

• Our current government document

• Declared our Independence

• The first government of the U.S.

• Summary of our country's history

All are a strength of the AoC except

• Can create treaties

• Can sell land for money

• Can make laws

• Can have an army

In the new territories what was not allowed

• Slavery

• Farming

• Buildings

• Religion

If you chose to move to the new territories you were going to be given​ ​ ______ and _____ ​ ​

• rights

• property
• slaves
• liberties
• weapons

The Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 legally displace 100,000+

The Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 allowed for orderly _________ of the United States.

One of the plots in the new townships had to be reserved for a

• church

• hospital

• school

• bank

Which of these is NOT a significance of Shays' Rebellion?

• Appointed Washington as 1st President

• Created the Constitution Convention and Constitution

• It created the United States.

• Recognized the weakness of the AoC

Many people during Covid lost their jobs and were forced into _______________ by the banks.

• compensation

• insurgency

• amnesty

• foreclosure

Which one is NOT a weakness of the AoC

• No courts/judges

• arguing states

• No taxation

• post office/postal roads