Fear of Power
The king whose rule made Americans suspicious of a powerful central government.
Who is King George III?
The Articles of Confederation were America's first one of these.
What is a Constitution?
Congress could declare this against another country.
What is war?
Under the Articles, the United States did NOT have this person leading the executive branch.
What is a president?
Americans complained about this because Britain collected money from them while they lacked representation.
What is taxation without representation?
Congress adopted the Articles in this year.
What is 1777?
Congress could make these agreements with foreign nations.
What are treaties?
The Articles did not establish this national branch/system to interpret laws and settle legal questions.
What is a national court system?
Americans feared this type of permanent military force controlled by a central government.
What is a standing army?
All 13 states finally ratified the Articles in this year.
What is 1781?
Congress could produce this, despite many of its other economic limitations.
What is money?
Congress could not regulate this type of commerce occurring between states.
What is interstate commerce?
Complete the dilemma from the beginning of the presentation: A government that was too powerful risked creating another tyrant, while one that was too weak risked creating ______.
What is chaos?
This word describes a political system in which most power remains with the individual states rather than the national government.
What is a confederation?
Despite all those powers, Congress lacked this crucial power, which your presentation calls its “biggest weakness.”
What is the power to tax?
Name THREE major weaknesses of the Articles from the presentation.
Any three of:
Americans had just fought a revolution against this type of authority, which explains why they intentionally weakened their new national government.
What is centralized authority/power?
Under the Articles, Virginia had about 750,000 people and Delaware about 60,000, but each received this many votes.
What is one vote?
Congress could handle these when they occurred between states.
What are disputes between states?
This many states had to agree to amend the Articles.
What are all 13 states?