1. The First Five November 6, 2014
Agenda Message: Complete the Articles of Confederation worksheet
Today’s Warm-up:
Who was the black soldier who was seriously wounded at the Battle of Kettle Creek?
Crispus Attucks
Agippa Hull
Austin Dabney
Frederick Douglass
2. Who were the three Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Lyman Hall, George Walton, & Noble Jones
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Ellis, & James Wright
George Walton, Nancy Hart, and Austin Dabney
Lyman Hall, Button Gwinnett, and George Walton C D

2. Unit 4: Statehood Articles of Confederation & Georgia Constitution of 1777
CCGPS: SS8H3a-Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of both the Georgia Constitution of 1777 and the Articles of Confederation and explain how weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation led to a need to revise the Articles.

3. Graphic Organizer: Strengths & Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

4. Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation were the 1st form of constitution for the USA.
They were written at the same time the Declaration of Independence was written.
It set up a system of government that divided power between the national government and the individual state governments.
Congress was the national body of government (unicameral).

5. Articles of Confederation
Strengths of the Articles of Confederation were that Congress could do the following:
declare war
sign treaties
deliver mail
create money
But the individual states had the most power. Each state could do the following:
collect its own taxes
issue its own money
support its own military
had 1 vote in Congress
Individual State Power

6. Articles of Confederation
Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation were that Congress:
Lacked power to enforce laws
Lacked power to levy (raise) taxes; therefore, Congress could not repay the $42 million debt from the American Revolutionary War.
Lacked power to regulate (control) trade among states
Required all 13 states to approve changes in the articles
Lacked power to create a national military

7. Georgia Constitution of 1777
Weaknesses of the Georgia Constitution of 1777:
Unicameral legislature (1 house legislature)
This single legislative body had too much power:
Selected the judges for the judicial branch (the courts)
Elected the governor, not the citizens of Georgia
Governors were served a 1-year term under this state Constitution

8. Georgia Constitution of 1777
John Treutlen was the state of Georgia’s 1st Governor.

9. Ticket Out the Door
What were four weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
What were three weaknesses of Georgia’s Constitution of 1777?