The AOC And Shays Rebellion Study Guide Flashcards
What documents were ideas taken from?
Magna Carta and the English bill of rights
Colonial governments
Town meetings legislatures and constitutions
What are the natural rights from?
The Declaration
Enlightenment ideas
Social contract
How many were formed to create a new government?
Committee of 13
How many members from each state
One
Confederation
An alliance of Independent states
The articles of confederation
First national government of the United States a stab list in 1777
Powers of the national government?
- declare war
- appointment military officers
- conduct foreign affairs
- coin money
What did the powers of the national government assemble
Congress
what did the AOC help to do.
The American Revolution against Britain
What did it make
Treaty of Paris
What did each state have to do
Recognize the laws of other states
What did it pass
The Northwest ordinance of 1787
People could move into the Ohio River Valley and do what?
Make a government
What did they do after they formed their own government?
They could ask to be state with the same rights as the others
Where was slavery not allowed
Northwest territory
What were the top three main weaknesses of the AOC?
- Congress had no power to collect taxes
- Congress had no power to raise a rational army
- The government had no excuse of branch to enforce national laws
All of the 13 states had to agree to change what?
The rules of the articles of confederation
Klaus how to pass with how many states voting in favor of the law
Nine out of 13
State governments were what?
Sovereign
DAU see you were a stab list to favor the what?
The power of the States
Sovereign
They ruled themselves;no other power could rule over them
States were fighting for independence from a what?
Strong central government
