Articles of Confederation Flashcards
Articles of Confederation
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| 8957712300 | Articles of Confederation | The first Constitution of the United States | 0 | |
| 8957712301 | Executive and Judicial | Articles of Confederation did not establish which branches of government? | 1 | |
| 8957712302 | The States | Under the Articles of Confederation who had the final authority in all matters? | 2 | |
| 8957712303 | To form a stronger government | Why were the Articles of Confederation replaced by the U.S. Constitution? | 3 | |
| 8957712304 | 1781 | When were the Articles of Confederation ratified? (during the American Revolution) | 4 | |
| 8957712305 | No Taxes | Power denied to the Federal Government under the Articles of Confederation. (Economic) | 5 | |
| 8957712306 | Shays' Rebellion | conflict in Massachusetts that demonstrated the need to change the Articles. | 6 | |
| 8957712307 | Northwest Ordinance | Which important legislation was passed while the Articles of Confederation were in effect? | 7 | |
| 8957712308 | 13 | Number of states in the Articles of Confederation. | 8 | |
| 8957712309 | One vote per state | How did voting work in Congress under the Articles of Confederation? | 9 | |
| 8957712310 | One, Legislative(Congress) | How many branches of government were created under the Articles of Confederation? | 10 | |
| 8957712311 | The states with larger populations | "Article V. In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each state shall have one vote." Read the above quote from the Articles of Confederation, which group would most likely be unhappy with Article V of the Articles of Confederation? | 11 | |
| 8957712312 | Weak | Because most Americans feared strong governments like England's (King George), they created the Articles of Confederation to be _______. | 12 | |
| 8957712313 | President | The Articles of Confederation had no ______________ or leader of the executive. | 13 | |
| 8957712314 | 9 | It took _____ of 13 states to pass a law | 14 | |
| 8957712315 | Judicial | The federal government had no ___________ branch and therefore no federal judges. |  | 15 |
| 8957712316 | 13 | It took a unanimous vote of ____ out of 13 states to amend or change the Articles of Confederation. |  | 16 |
| 8957712317 | Enforce Laws | The Federal Government could write laws, but they had no power to ___________________________. |  | 17 |
| 8957712318 | Ratify | this means to formerly accept or pass. | 18 | |
| 8957712319 | Northwest Territory/ Ohio River Valley | The area North of the Ohio River. Given to the Americans by the Treaty of Paris. | 19 | |
| 8957712320 | Ordinance of 1785 | Devised a system to sell land in the Ohio River Valley, sold land in 6x6 mile townships. Did not protect property rights. | 20 | |
| 8957712321 | Law | Ordinance is another word for: | 21 | |
| 8957712322 | Northwest Ordinance 1787 | Divided the Northwest Territory into five smaller colonies and established a way for territories to become states. | 22 | |
| 8957712323 | Shay's Rebellion | Lead by a former military captain, a revolt of farmers against the courts attempting to take their land became known as_____________. | 23 | |
| 8957712324 | Supported federalism, wanted strong central government, supported the Constitution. | Federalists | 24 | |
| 8957712325 | Wanted strong state government, worried the Constitution took away personal freedoms, wanted a Bill of Rights | Anti-Federalists | 25 | |
| 8957712326 | Anti-Federalists who refused to sign the Constitution because it did not have a Bill of Rights to protect personal freedoms. | George Mason and Patrick Henry | 26 | |
| 8957712327 | Strong supporters of the Constitution and primary authors of the Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison | 27 | |
| 8957712328 | A system of government involving state and national governments. | Federalism | 28 | |
| 8957712329 | A series of essays and articles designed to support to Constitution. | The Federalist Papers | 29 | |
| 8957712330 | A series of essays and articles designed to argue for weaker national government. | The Anti-federalist papers. | 30 | |
| 8957712331 | The authors of the Articles of Confederation... | feared concentration of power in national government | 31 |