POLS 206 TAMU COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Articles of Confederation - ✔✔- Adopted during the Revolutionary War, created the
confederation
- Not really a framework for national government
- One-house (unitary) body of delegates
- Each state gets one vote in legislature regardless of size
- State's retain independence and sovereignty, except powers explicitly delegated to
central government
- Nine states needed to pass any laws (supermajority)
- Unanimous vote needed for any amendment to the Articles
- Selection of delegates to Congress made by the states' legislatures
✔✔Congress empowered to - ✔✔- Make peace
- Make coin money
- Appoint officers for army
- Control post office
- Negotiate with Indian tribes
- Declare war
, ✔✔Three-fifths Compromise - ✔✔- Population for both Taxes and representation would
be calculated by: "whole # of free persons" + "3/5 of all OTHER people"
- "other" persons were a euphemism for African American slaves
- Representatives and direct taxes were apportioned based on this finial population
number
- EXAMPLE: Virginia had about 300,000 slaves = counted for 180,000 of the population
✔✔Confederation - ✔✔- National government derives its powers directly from the states
- More of an association of states rather than a union
- Lasted 10 years
✔✔Problems associated with Articles of Confederation - ✔✔- 9 out of 13 states
necessary to pass laws
- Congress had no power to tax, massive amount of debt after revolutionary war
- Main source of revenue became tariffs, congress could not impose tariffs = States had
to do so voluntarily
- No executive to execute the laws enacted by Congress; Congress could not enforce
any acts it was able to pass
- Congress could not regulate interstate and foreign commerce, state coin money =
chaotic trade
- AoC did not have a provision for a judicial system
✔✔Summary of problems of AoC - ✔✔- Government was DELIBERATELY weak
Articles accomplished a couple of things:
1) Won the Revolutionary War under the Articles
2) Northwest Ordinance of 1787
✔✔Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (AoC) - ✔✔- Process to create 5 new states between
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
- Also, outlawed slavery in all the new 5 states
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Articles of Confederation - ✔✔- Adopted during the Revolutionary War, created the
confederation
- Not really a framework for national government
- One-house (unitary) body of delegates
- Each state gets one vote in legislature regardless of size
- State's retain independence and sovereignty, except powers explicitly delegated to
central government
- Nine states needed to pass any laws (supermajority)
- Unanimous vote needed for any amendment to the Articles
- Selection of delegates to Congress made by the states' legislatures
✔✔Congress empowered to - ✔✔- Make peace
- Make coin money
- Appoint officers for army
- Control post office
- Negotiate with Indian tribes
- Declare war
, ✔✔Three-fifths Compromise - ✔✔- Population for both Taxes and representation would
be calculated by: "whole # of free persons" + "3/5 of all OTHER people"
- "other" persons were a euphemism for African American slaves
- Representatives and direct taxes were apportioned based on this finial population
number
- EXAMPLE: Virginia had about 300,000 slaves = counted for 180,000 of the population
✔✔Confederation - ✔✔- National government derives its powers directly from the states
- More of an association of states rather than a union
- Lasted 10 years
✔✔Problems associated with Articles of Confederation - ✔✔- 9 out of 13 states
necessary to pass laws
- Congress had no power to tax, massive amount of debt after revolutionary war
- Main source of revenue became tariffs, congress could not impose tariffs = States had
to do so voluntarily
- No executive to execute the laws enacted by Congress; Congress could not enforce
any acts it was able to pass
- Congress could not regulate interstate and foreign commerce, state coin money =
chaotic trade
- AoC did not have a provision for a judicial system
✔✔Summary of problems of AoC - ✔✔- Government was DELIBERATELY weak
Articles accomplished a couple of things:
1) Won the Revolutionary War under the Articles
2) Northwest Ordinance of 1787
✔✔Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (AoC) - ✔✔- Process to create 5 new states between
the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
- Also, outlawed slavery in all the new 5 states
