1. Teacher Notes Use this template presentation to introduce The Articles of Confederation TEKS 5.3 B. This template can also be used by students for researching information after the lesson has been conducted. This is a template and will require that you insert information. Delete any instructions you do not want to display.

2. Key Questions What are the Articles of Confederation? How was life in the United States under the Articles of Confederation? What are the weaknesses and strengths of the Article of Confederation?

3. (Describe and Explain) PurposePartsWho wrote and enforced them?

4. How are we going to collect taxes for colony? Why were the Articles of Confederation Important? Why is each state wanting to do their own thing? Maybe we need someone to lead us?

5. EffectStudent thoughts Congress could make war and pass other laws.

6. EffectStudent thoughts Laws had to be approved by 9 of the 13 colonies.

7. EffectStudent thoughts The government had no executive branch.

8. EffectStudent thoughts There was no national court system.

9. EffectStudent thoughts Congress had no ability to collect taxes.

10. Men fighting during Shay’s Rebellion www.constitutioncenter.org/.../cw02_11926.html What is the significance of Shay’s Rebellion?

11. WhoDaniel Shay What Where When Why

12. www.vmfa.state.va.us/ collections/50_2_1.html Why is a Constitutional Convention necessary? What were the goals of the Constitutional Convention?