7 Northwest Territories

• ​A The Confederation Congress was able to effectively deal with the issue of dividing up and settling the Northwest Territories
• B Land Ordinance: Divided up the land into separate territories
  
• C Northwest Ordinance: Created laws and requirements for territories to become states
  

6 Impact of Shays Rebellion

• ​A National government could do nothing to help
• B They had no money, no troops, no authority to enforce laws
  
• C Shays Rebellion took MA a long time to stop
  
• D People in other states feared it could happen in their state too
  
• E Government obviously too weak to TCOB

5 Shays Rebellion

• ​A Farmers angry over high taxes in Massachusetts
• B Loosing their farms and being jailed for not paying
  
• C Country just had a revolution because of taxes
• D ​Farmers led by Daniel Shay go ape, burn down government buildings and release prisoners
  

4 Government was weak

• A ​Most powers left to the states
• ​B Why? Because _________ had a strong controlling government.
  
• C They feared giving the government too much power
  

3 Major Problems

• ​A No power to enforce laws 
• ​B Could not pass taxes
  
• ​C Could not regulate trade
  
• D ​Difficult to change
  

2 AoC 1 Branch of Government

• ​A Only a legislative Branch
• ​B Each state got one vote
  
• C Needed 9 of 13 yes votes to pass new law
  
• ​D Needed 13 of 13 to change Articles
  
• E No Judicial or Courts
  
• F No Executive or President
  

1 Articles : AoC

• ​A 1st Constitution for the United States
• ​B Written by Second Continental Congress
  
• C ​Weak limited Government
  

Articles of Confederation