The Crisis of Confederation

Chapter 3, Lesson 3

Objectives

• Understand the conflicts between the national government and the 13 states.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Annapolis Convention

Vocabulary Commerce- the buying and selling of goods

Territory- an area belonging to the U.S. but not yet a state.

Shays’ Rebellion• Daniel Shays

• 1786 & 1787

• Soldier fought in Bunker Hill and Saratoga

• Was going broke from taxes

Massachusetts • Like many states,

• Was in an economic depression

Taxing its people to pay off the war debt

Farmers could not pay taxes

Farmers going broke

Faced losing their farms

RebellionDaniel Shays and a mob protested in 1786

This was shut down by the Governor.

4 Months later, in January 1787

Shays organized again

Shays’ Rebellion• Now over two thousand strong!

• To the federal Arsenal

Shays’ Rebellion• Now over two thousand strong!

• To the federal Arsenal

Shays’ Rebellion• Now over two thousand strong!

• To the federal Arsenal

Springfield Arsenal

Shock!

• The wealthy people wanted protection under the national government

• The A. of C. couldn't provide this.

• Time for a change

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Economy

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Research

ProblemsToo confusing

Some states didn’t accept other notes. at face value.

Congress Lacks Power

congress |ˈkä ng grəs; ˈkän-|noun1 the national legislative body of a country.• ( Congress) the national legislative body of the U.S., meeting at the Capitol in Washington, DC. It was established by the Constitution of 1787 and is composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives : changes in taxation required the approval of Congress.• a particular session of the U.S. Congress : the 104th Congress.

2 a formal meeting or series of meetings for discussion between delegates, esp. those from a political party or trade union or from within a particular discipline : an international congress of mathematicians.

3 a society or organization, esp. a political one : the National Congress of American Indians.

Congress Lacks PowerStates did not allow Congress to regulate commerce.

Congress Lacks PowerStates did not allow Congress to regulate commerce.

What things can you regulate in commerce?

Congress Lacks Power• Congress could not collect import taxes on

foreign goods.

“Easy States”

• Offered lower import taxes

Congress Lacks PowerWithout the power to tax the government could not raise money to function.

No power in foreign affairs

Prates!!

Barbary Pirates

• Accept money

• Captured American ships

• America was too broke to pay the pirates.

• Too weak to fight back.

New Trade

• Developed trade with:

• France (French West Indies)

• Netherlands (Dutch West Indies)

• Morocco

Open Trade with China

• The Empress of China

• Sailed to Canton, China