1. AOC TEST Review
This power point should be used to review – not memorize – these will not be the exact questions on the test.
**Review AOC Reading Notes p. 6, AOC PT from last week and this week, Features of the AOC p. 7, p. 8 Scenarios & the True /False Check UP
**Remember – you will be able to utilize the AOC Doodle NOTES Task Assessment while taking the test!

2. citizens feared a strong central government
Under the Articles of Confederation, why was the Congress was denied the powers of taxation, regulating trade and creating tariffs?

3. STATE
Because leaders wanted to limit the powers of the national government – under the AOC, most power belonged to the individual _____ governments ?

4. Did not have the power to tax
Why was the U.S. Congress unable to resolve the nation’s economic problems while operating under the Articles of Confederation?

5. The Northwest Ordinance
Given its lack of power, what did the U.S. Congress under the AOC create that was actually considered a success?

6. create a strong and effective U. S. government
create a strong and effective U.S. government. preserve British power in the colonies. provide a model for state constitutions. preserve the states as being separate and sovereign.
The AOC created a loose alliance of states with a weak central government in order to do what?

7. Which statement describes a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
Congress had too much control over the states. Congress had too much control over individual citizens. Congress did not have the power to tax. Congress did not have the power to declare war
Which statement describes a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

8. How did Spain take advantage of the weak national government?
They attacked settlers on the western frontier They closed the port of New Orleans They didn’t remove their soldiers from the Ohio territory They refused to recognize the U.S. as a separate and independent nation
How did Spain take advantage of the weak national government?

9. a plan for the orderly settlement of new territory
Under the AOC, what did the Northwest Ordinance provide?

10. Freedom of petition & speech Right to privacy & right to Trial by Jury Freedom of Religion & Right to Trial by Jury Freedom of speech & religion
The NW Ordinance provided a bill of rights to settlers which included which two rights?

11. Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana & Illinois (and part of Minnesota)
The Northwest Ordinance was passed by the United States Congress in Which states were created as a result?

12. The colonists resented Britain’s strong national government
Why did the creators of the Articles of Confederation create a weak national?

13. The Articles made it hard to maintain a strong army
Why were British soldiers able to avoid leaving the Ohio Valley?

14. Slavery
The NW Ordinance became the first law in US History to restrict what?

15. Congressional money was worthless
Why did states print their own money?

16. The Articles of Confederation did not set up a national judicial system
Why were states unable to settle disputes among themselves?

17. The United States had no president under the Articles of Confederation
Why was it hard to enforce national laws?

18. ALL 13 states had to agree
What was it difficult for the Articles of Confederation to be amended (changed)?

19. Shays’s Rebellion
What event was important to the call for a Constitutional Convention in 1787 to replace the AOC?

20. A stronger national government
What did this rebellion demonstrate the need for?
(people worried that the AOC couldn’t provide protection and stability)

21. Make laws
60,000
?states
13/13 votes for changes
Draft Soldiers – ask states
Rights
Rule?

22. Fact Bank for AOC DOODLE NOTES TASK ACTIVITY:
The AOC were the 1st real government of the U.S. Designed to keep the
National Gov’t very weak with most power at the state level.
STATE Gov’t very weak with most power at the national level.
STATES and the NATIONAL governments equal and balanced in power.
RAISE $ BY SELLING LAND
DRAFT SOLDIERS
RAISE TAXES
REGULATE TRADE
DECLARE WAR
MAKE ALLIANCES/TREATIES
WORK w/ NATIVE AMERICANS
 MAKE LAWS
CONGRESS
PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE
NATIONAL COURT SYSTEM
LAND ACQUISITION ACTS
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
AMERICAN RIGHTS ACTS
Can’t declare war
Can’t defend the country
Can’t pay debts
Can’t make treaties
No Courts to settle disputes
No president to enforce laws
9 states have to agree
No way to create new states
The AOC is not working, we need to change it.
The AOC is working well and is what we wanted.
I am fighting to keep farmers out of debtors prison
I am fighting to keep bankers out of debtors prison
I am fighting to keep soldiers out of debtors prison.
30,000, 50,000 60,000 or 90,000
MI, MO, IL, IA, IN, WI, MN,
OH, OK, TN, KY, LA
Right to bear arms
Right to Trial by Jury
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Protection of Quartering of Troops
Slavery is allowed
Slavery is denied