1. Paper Preparation class
America: the Love Story
We are making thick columns.
Head the paper.
Title your paper “America: The Love Story”.

2. America: The Love Story (SS.7.C.1.5)
- by the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
analyze the cause and effect relationships that transitioned the American colonies to the united States of America, to the United States of America

3. More Paper Preparation
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)
More Paper Preparation
Please add these labels to your paper.
As always, the titles will show up as they are needed on future slides.
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4. America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)
Today, we are summarizing the story of why we broke up with England, how we broke up with England, the rebound boyfriend, and the keeper that we’ve been married to for over 225 years.

5. 1st rectangle: Influences
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)
As a class, we are going to write down some of the influences on the Founding Fathers. They were loyal English citizens, but their eyes were wandering…

6. 2nd rectangle: England (The Bad Boyfriend)
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)

7. 2nd rectangle: England (The Bad Boyfriend)
Do you remember any of the terrible things England did? Please share them with the class to we can write them down in the bad boyfriend box.
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)

8. 3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)

9. 3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)
After we broke up with England, we wanted a government that was the exact opposite: a rebound government.
I need some volunteer readers for this next section.

10. Criteria: Have two identical letters in first name
The Articles of Confederation was written in 1776 and finally ratified, or approved, by the original thirteen states in Maryland was the last state to ratify the document in The confederation was the first government of the newly formed United States.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

11. Criteria: Have exactly five letters in first name
A confederation is a government system where power is located with the independent states and there is little power in the central government. The desire for a confederation came from the colonists’ experience under King George III from England. They wanted to create a system that wouldn’t allow for unfair taxing or limiting individual rights.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

12. Criteria: Are taller than your civics teacher
Under the Articles of Confederation, most power was with the states. The articles stated that each colony was to act as an independent state, and that each state had the right to pass laws within their borders. The articles also established a weak national legislature to oversee interactions between the states.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

13. Criteria: Like math more than language arts
  Under the Articles of Confederation, states maintained their freedom and independence. As a result, states functioned in many ways as independent countries. For example, several states negotiated their own trade agreements with other countries, while other states established their own militaries.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

14. Criteria: Have slept in a class in 7th grade
  With the states having the majority of government power, the central government had no control over the states’ actions and people began to fear that this system of government was not working because the national government was too weak.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

15. Criteria: Haven’t read out loud today
The Congress did not have the power to tax and so it could not pay for the army and navy needed to defend the nation. It also couldn’t regulate the trade agreements states were making with other countries.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

16. Criteria: Can tie your shoes
The Congress could also not enforce any laws they passed because there was no central leadership to make sure that laws were being enforced in each state or a central judicial system to interpret laws or settle disputes between states.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

17. Criteria: Are thirteen years old
Finally, any changes to the Articles of Confederation required unanimous approval from all 13 states. This made it difficult to make any changes to the articles. As a result, the lack of powers held by the weak national Congress combined with each state’s independent actions, raised concerns that the Articles of Confederation were not designed in a way to protect the new nation.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

18. Volunteer Thank You
Thanks for reading!

19. Criteria: Your teacher should read this one.
By 1786 the economy of the United States was struggling due to debt, or money owed, from the Revolutionary War and because states were arguing over boundary lines and taxes. This economic situation made an impact on individual states and also individual citizens, especially farmers and merchants.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

20. Criteria: Your teacher should read this one.
These circumstances led to Shays’s Rebellion, a revolt by 2,000 western Massachusetts farmers who marched on county courthouses to prevent land foreclosures. A foreclosure is when a bank or other entity takes back property when taxes or debts are not paid.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

21. Criteria: Your teacher should read this one.
The farmers’ land was threatened with foreclosure because they were promised that they did not have to pay taxes and other debts on their land during the Revolutionary War. These promises were not kept and this led the farmers to revolt.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

22. Criteria: Your teacher should read this one.
Congress did not respond because it was too weak and did not have its own army. The Massachusetts militia finally ended the rebellion, but the situation made it clear that the national government did not have the ability to maintain order in this new nation.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

23. Criteria: Your teacher should read this one.
After Shays’s Rebellion, Alexander Hamilton of New York organized a meeting in Philadelphia in This meeting, called the Constitutional Convention, would eventually throw out the Articles of Confederation and draft the Constitution.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

24. Criteria: Your teacher should read this one.
The freedom that the American Revolution sought to preserve created a government under the Articles of Confederation that could not keep law and order. However, the experience with the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the Constitution in 1787.
3rd rectangle: Articles of Confederation

25. 4th rectangle: The Constitution (The Keeper)
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)

26. 4th rectangle: The Constitution (The Keeper)
After realizing the rebound wasn’t working out, we wrote the Constitution. How did this new document fix our problems we had under England and our problems with the Articles of Confederations?
America: The Love Story
Influences
(Wandering Eyes)
England
(Bad Boyfriend)
Articles of Confederation
(Rebound)
The Constitution
(The Keeper)

27. Constitution: Article I, Section 8
In other words: With the Constitution, the United States can collect taxes for the military and to keep America safe and healthy.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.

28. Constitution: Article I, Section 8 (pt 2)
In other words: With the Constitution, the United States can regulate trade.
The Congress shall have Power… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States

29. Constitution: Article II, Section 1
In other words: With the Constitution, the United States will have central leadership (executive branch).
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

30. Constitution: Article II, Section 3
In other words: With the Constitution, the United States can enforce laws (the President).
…he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…

31. Constitution: Article III, Section 1
In other words: With the Constitution, the United States will have a national court system (judicial branch).
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

32. Constitution: Article V
In other words: With the Constitution, the United States can make changes to the Constitution more easily (offer amendments).
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution.

33. America: the Love Story
Writing Prompt Paper Preparation Procedure
Get out a new sheet of paper
Head your paper
Title your paper
Write three letters big below the title
America: the Love Story
W I R
Write a well-crafted informative response. (10 minute timer)
Well-crafted means that your sentences fit together instead of jumping around.
Informative means facts should come from the documents; your opinions are not required.
Response means you answer the prompt; don’t just write what you feel like writing.

34. You have ten minutes. Sit quietly when you are finished.
Write a well-crafted informative response.
Well-crafted: sentences, not fragments; paragraph, not a list
Informative: facts from notes, opinions not required
Response: don’t just write what you feel like writing
Prompt: Explain one of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. Using your imagination, explain how that weakness could be a problem if it were still the law today. Finally, explain how the Constitution fixed that weakness.

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