The Articles of Confederation
What was the Articles of Confederation?
The first government of the United States.
This group wanted a strong central (federal) government, and weaker state governments.
What is Federalists?
The Preamble is the Introduction to this document.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
This event showed the country how problematic the Articles of Confederation were.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This group wanted strong state governments and a weaker central (federal) government.
What is Anti-Federalists?
There are six of these stated in the Preamble
What are the goals of the Constitution?
The Articles of Confederation had this many branches.
What is one?
The Articles of Confederation gave most power to this group.
What are the States?
What were Anti-Federalists worried a strong central government would do to the people?
Take away their rights like a king.
This word means 'future generations.'
What is Posterity?
This word means to establish or make official. It can be found in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
What is ordain?
These 2 branches were missing from the Articles of Confederation.
What are Executive and Judicial?
This had to be added to U.S. Constitution to get Anti-Federalists to agree to it.
What is the Bill of Rights.
Branches being added to the military best reflects this goal, which is stated in the preamble.
The Articles of Confederation did not include the executive branch and therefore did not have this.
What is a president?
Under the Articles of Confederation, congress could not collect these.
What are taxes?
They believed that creating a list of the peoples rights would make it possible to violate rights that were not listed.
This goal, which is stated in the preamble, means to have peace within the United States.
What is 'insure domestic tranquility'?
What is 'consent of the governed?'