What features do you think the newly independent Americans will want in their government

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What features do you think the newly independent
Americans will want in their government?
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The Articles Of Confederation

• Including the Northwest Ordinance

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What are the new Americans thinking?

• Thought Congress was only a wartime necessity.
• United States was a Confederacy.
• Did not want a powerful national government.

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Articles of Confederation

• Plan for a loose union of states, with limited
  power for central government
• The Articles only created one branch of
  government
• Congress could declare war, sign treaties, create
  armies

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Articles of Confederation

• Weaknesses
• Could not tax or regulate trade
• How to pay back war debt?
• One vote for each state, regardless of size or
  population
• No executive branch to enforce laws or treaties

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Other Weaknesses

• No national court system
• Amendments required unanimous approval 13/13
• No power to force British to honor treaty and
  leave U.S.
• British remain in posts around Great Lakes
  because U.S. does not compensate Loyalists

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Todays Government

• Three branches of government
• Legislative- Makes the laws
• Congress Senate and House of Representatives
• Executive- Carries out the laws
• Judicial- Interprets the laws

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Northwest Ordinance- Land Ordinance of 1785

• Northwest ordinance seen as only success of
  Articles of Conf.
• Needed to control lands north of Ohio river,
  which several states claim
• Creates clear process to become a state

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Northwest Ordinance- Land Ordinance of 1785

• Denied slavery in the territory
• Freedom of religion, property rights and trial by
  jury guaranteed
• Provided for funding of public education in each
  township

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