Names: _________________________________________ Date: _____________________ Section: _________

Guided Notes - Articles of Confederation:

1. Benchmark SS.7.C.1.5: Identify how the ________________________ of the _______________________
Of ____________________________________ led to the writing of the ________________________________
2. Define – “ratify”: ________________________________________________________________________
3. Define – “confederation” _________________________________________________________________
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4. Define – “central government” ____________________________________________________________
5. Define – “state”_________________________________________________________________________
6. Define “constitution”: ____________________________________________________________________
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7. The Articles of Confederation were in existence during the years: _________________ - ______________
8. The “Articles” was adopted in __________________ but wasn’t ratified until _______________________
9. The Articles were ratified during the War and created a _____________________ confederation of states
known as a “_______________________ of _____________________”. This is a ________________________
central government with most of the power in the _________________________ governments.
10. List five things the Congress could do under the Articles of Confederation:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________________________
11. List five weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation:
a. ______________________________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________________________
12. Without the ability to tax States, Congress could not pay the debts from the ________________________
13. What was the name of the uprising that occurred after the war? _________________________________
14. Why did Shay’s Rebellion occur? ___________________________________________________________
15. Congress couldn’t get the military to stop the rebellion because: _________________________________
16. How did Shay’s Rebellion prove to the colonists that the Articles of Confederation was too weak?_______
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