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Why do you think our school has rules? Write three lines
explaining why you think it is important to have rules to
follow.
PLEASE DO NOW!
Please share with a partner.
This newly declared nation needed a government to keep
order and laws to govern it. The Continental Congress debated and argued about how the new
government should work.
They finally created and
approved a new set of laws called
the Articles of Confederation in
1777 which created a new government.
Because the delegates were afraid of giving the government
too much power like the king and Parliament had in Britain,
the Articles formed a weak central government.
In the new government, there was no main leader or president. There was a
congress, but it also had little power.
Why do you think the leaders of the new United States of America
created a federal government that didn’t have much control or power over the people? Write
three lines explaining your thinking.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Share your thoughts with a partner.
The Continental Congress (now called the Congress of the
Confederation) wanted the states to have more control over their
citizens than the federal government.
On September 28, 1776, Pennsylvania created its own
state constitution that set up the government for the state.