Articles of Confederation 1781 - 1787

Related reading includes Chapter 4, Section #1, Explore, Pages 1-7 & Chapter 4, Section #2, Explore, Pages 1-6 from the Discovery Techbook.

Students will learn about:

• the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation as our first national constitution.

• how the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transferred federally owned lands into private holdings, townships, and states.

• The Constitutional Convention and ratification of our Constitution.

• the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states.