Articles of Confederation Homework: Due on 10/6

Watch the video and answer the following on a sheet of your own paper. Questions 9 and 10 are the only questions requiring the answer to be in a complete sentence.  Do not write the question.

1) What was the first constitution of the United States?

2) Who led the committee to draft the Articles of Confederation?

3) From whom did the committee get inspiration in creating the Articles of Confederation?

4) When the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation?

5) How many states were needed to make the Articles of Confederation the constitution for the United States?

6) When did the Articles of Confederation become the constitution for the United States?

7) List the powers the congress under the Articles of Confederation possessed.

8) List the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

9) What main problem did the congress' weak taxing power have under the Articles of Confederation?

10) What effect did Shay's Rebellion have on the view of the Articles of Confederation?

11) When did state delegates meet to create a new constitution for the United States?

The Articles of Confederation Power Point

 

Self-Government in the Thirteen Colonies

 

John Locke, Property, and Natural Rights

 Points to remember:

1) Rights come from God and, therefore, they are natural

2) Because rights are natural they exist before government, and man creates government to protect rights

3) Man has a property in his body and the labor produced by the body is property.

4) Property is created by man using his labor to remove something from its natural state.

5) Man has a right of property and that right is the ability to use that property in a manner of his own choosing as long as such usage does not deny others of their right of property. 

6) Man creates government for the purpose of protecting rights (life, liberty, and property).

7) Government gets its power to govern from the people it governs.

8) When government fails to protect rights, man has a right to either change government so that it returns to protecting rights OR man has a right to overthrow that government and replace it with one that protects rights