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WorksheetsArticles of Confederation
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
No power to tax citizens was another weakness of the Articles of Confederation, Why do you think it was like that?
Citizens wanted to protect individual states taxing power
Fear of being over taxed
The Fear of one person having to much "Power" was what weakness of the "Articles of Confederation"?
No power to request money
No Chief Executive
No power to tax
all of the above
The wanting to protect individual states power, and the fear of a strong central government, "Was what weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Laws needed approval by 9 out of 13 States
no chief executive
no power to tax citizens
What event "showed congress how weak the Articles of Confederation was?
Bacon Rebellion
American Revolution
Shay's Rebellion
Constitution
Fear of a Strong Central government, no way to protect the Country, What weakness was this ?
No power to draft an army
no national court system
Who was the president under the articles?
George Washington
Each governor voted on a president
The most senior Senator
There wasn't one
Which of the following was an example of a strength in the Articles of Confederation?
Congress couldn't collect taxes
Provided no common currency amongst the 13th states
Weak national government
Provided a sense of unity and nationhood
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
What was banned in the Northwest Territory?
slavery
public education
religious freedom
What were the two Accomplishments of the Articles of Confederation?
Northeast Ordinace & Ranch Ordinance of 1785
Land Ordinance of 1785 & Northwest ordinance
Land ordinance
none of the above
How did the provisions of the Northwest Ordiance affect U.S. expansion?
By funding a transportation network in uninhabited regions
By establishing a process for territories to govern themselves
By promoting the growth of southern plantation economies
By creating a national bank to loan money to land investors
Under the Articles of Confederation, congress would become the first _______________________.
American newspaper.
magazine articles written by George Washington
uniform made for the army
national government
this law set up a system for mapping and dividing western lands.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
The Articles of Confederation
The Declaration of Independence
