1. Congress Creates the Articles of Confederation
Chapter 5 Section 1
Congress Creates the Articles of Confederation

2. Articles of Confederation
-drafted by the Continental Congress in 1777
-confederation of 13 states
-a league or alliance of states that agree to work together

3. Articles of Confederation
National (Federal) Government
-congress of delegates (chosen by state legislatures)
-powers to make, implement, and enforce the law
-no President or executive branch

4. Articles of Confederation
-alliance of independent states
-national legislature (Congress)
-power to declare war
-trade agreements between states
-no executive or judicial
-no power to tax
-no power to enforce laws made
*most power remained with states
*ratified in 1781 (by all 13 states)

5. Farmers Revolt in Massachusetts Page 140-141
Shay’s Rebellion

6. Congress Creates a Plan for Western Lands
Northwest Territory
-land north of the Ohio River and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River

7. Distributing Western Lands
Land Ordinance of 1785
-a system for distributing public lands in the Northwest territory

8. Governing Western Lands
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
-provided a government for western territory
-governor, secretary, three judges
-5,000 men- establish an elected assembly
-60,000 men- request admission to the Union as a state and adopt a republican constitution
*Territory later formed mid-western states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota
*states would enter union as free states rather than slave states