1. Monday November 7th 2016
Pick up your spirals/folders, take out a pen or pencil and start a new bellwork sheet.
Bathroom Passes
Bellwork: What do you think? (Sentences)
Would you want a more influential or less influential national government? Why?

2. Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)
Declaration of Independence → established the United States of America
American Revolution → independence is won and recognized worldwide
Articles of Confederation → first national government of the U.S.A.
Main idea: Powerful states with a weak central government
We don’t want another king!
Replaced by the Constitution in 1789

3. Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)
Weaknesses
Congress had no power to:
levy taxes
regulate trade
enforce laws
No executive branch
Required unanimous vote to make changes
One representative per state
Strengths
Governed during the Revolution
Negotiated Treaty of Paris 1783
Passed Land Ordinance of 1785
Passed Northwest Ordinance of 1787

4. Wednesday November 9th 2016
Pick up your spirals/folders, take out a pen/pencil and your bellwork sheet.
We are finishing the Articles of Confederation today:
Bellwork: What do you think?
What were some strengths of the Articles of Confederation?

5. Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)
Land Ordinance of 1785
A plan for surveying and selling the land between the Appalachians and Mississippi River

6. Land Ordinance of 1785

7. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
A Plan on how Territories become States or plan to add new States to the Union.
Banned Slavery in all N/W Territories (and future states).
How a territory becomes a state:
Territory reaches a population of 5,000 free white males
Form a bicameral legislature
Elect a delegate to the U.S. Congress (no vote)
Population of 60,000 – territory can apply for statehood
Submit a constitution to Congress
Enter Union

8. Quick Answer in Your Notes One of these questions will be on the quiz on Friday so it is for your benefit.
Why did the writers of the Articles of Confederation create a national government with no executive branch?
Under the Articles of Confederation, where did most government power rest?
What procedures were put in place by the Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance?

9. Timeline Events With a shoulder partner put these events in order (with dates) on a sheet of paper.
Lexington and Concord
Proclamation of 1763
Tea Act
Treaty of Paris 1783
Stamp Act
Winter at Valley Forge
Articles of Confederation
Albany Plan of Union
Declaration of Independence ratified
Boston Massacre
Northwest Ordinance
Quartering Act
Boston Tea Party
Sugar Act
Battle of Saratoga
French and Indian War
Battle of Yorktown
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Acts
Land Ordinance