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Kido, Natalie
Tiglao, Lara
Alvarado, Alexia
Diaz, Desiree
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"On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence. The document proclaimed the separation of the American colonies from Great Britain and formally began
the American Revolution. The new nation then had to create a new government to replace the monarchy it was trying to overthrow. After much debate, the Americans adopted the Articles of
Confederation. This document established a very weak national government that consisted of a one-house legislature known as the Confederation Congress. The Congress had the power to declare
war, sign treaties, and settle disputes between the states. It could also borrow or print money and could ask for funds from individual states, which rarely provided the requested money to the federal
government. The Americans were so fearful of a strong, centralized government that they refused to give their Congress the power to tax. The Articles of Confederation were first adopted by the
Second Continental Congress on November 1, 1777, and were given final ratification on March 1, 1781. The Second Continental Congress became the Congress of the Confederation. This government
was then in effect from 1781 until 1788.
In 1783, the Americans secured their independence from Great Britain with the Treaty of Paris (1783). They immediately began to build a new nation. Among the Confederation Congress' successes
was passage of the Northwest Ordinance, which established the Northwest Territory. Still, the Confederation Congress faced many difficulties, primarily due to the weak nature of the national
government. Without having the ability to tax, the federal government could not pay for a military. This was an especially important issue for people living in the Northwest Territory. As thousands of
Americans moved into the area, Native Americans struggled to stop them. Unable to pay for an army, the government could not protect its citizens. To solve this and other problems, a Constitutional
Convention took place in the summer of 1787. Called together to revise the Articles of Confederation the delegates decided that a new and stronger Constitution was needed. The federal government
now had the power to tax, and its provisions were to be the supreme law of the land. Fearing that one person or faction might be able to gain control of the government, the drafters divided the
government's powers among three separate branches -- the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. Each branch had checks and balances on the powers of the other two. The
Constitution created the United States in the form in which it still exists today.."
This document describes what the Articles of Confederation did for the people and what
problems came with it after it was written. The purpose of the Articles is that its
suppose to help the people but instead it made their struggles more server, because
they weren’t able to pay for the military.
It doesn’t support our thesis all the way, but it counter’s it by saying
that it never helped so the people wanted to improve the document.
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"Even before adoption of the Articles, Congress observed most of their provisions. The British
military danger encouraged the states to meet their obligations to Congress. After peace
returned, however, the Articles' inherent weakness became apparent and, after several attempts
to strengthen Congress by amending them failed because of the unanimity requirement, a
Constitutional Convention was called in 1787 to revise the Articles. In one of its first acts, the
Convention voted to abandon the Articles altogether and draft a new constitution…"
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Congress did not have the power to raise
revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants
of the United States. Therefore, the
immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise
money through the sale of land in the largely
unmapped territory west of the original
states acquired at the 1783 Treaty of Paris
after the end of the Revolutionary War. The
Northwest Ordinance created territorial
government. It set up an agreement for the
admission of new states, the division of land
into a useful system , and set aside land in
each township for public use. This system
represented a break from imperial
colonization, and provided the basis for the
rest of American continental expansion.
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Supporting the thesis, the Land of Ordinance
of 1785 was adopted under The Articles of
Confederation. It gave the oppurtunity for
the government to raise money since there
wasn't any due to the Revolutionary war.
This document shows how the government was under the Articles of
confederation compared to how it was under the federal constitution.
It counters our thesis because it shows how better the central government
was under the federal constitution instead of the articles.
“Congress under the Articles had three great successes: it
obtained an advantageous peace treaty ending the
Revolutionary War, it acquired a huge public domain
from state cessions of their western lands, and it
enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which established
the pattern for the administration of federal
territories."
This supports our thesis because it shows how the
Articles of Confederation were effective in solving
the problems that confronted the new nation.
This documents shows how the Articles of Confederation made
Congress better by peace treaty, acquiring land, and
established a pattern for the administration.
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shows how the
articles created
disruption towards
their government
which caused
problems for the new
nation.
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statement because it
doesn’t support it
because of the
articles were meant
to create an improved
nation.
“Canada was specifically allowed to join the confederation, but all other colonies needed the approval of
nine states to enter. Every state was to abide by the determination of Congress on questions
delegated to Congress by the Articles, and the Articles were to be inviolably observed by every state.
Amendments to the Articles had to be ratified by the legislature of every state.”
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