Lesson 11: How Did the Articles of Confederation Organize the First National Government?
Creating the Articles of Confederation (Video)
Americans in the Revolutionary period feared a strong national government and giving too much power to any individual state. The Articles of Confederation reflected those fears and created a weak central government.
The Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (Video)
The Singing History Teachers explain why the Articles of Confederation failed and what the Weakness of the Articles of Confederation were in this parody of "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi.
Shays (Video)
What happened between the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the ratification of the current U.S. Constitution? This video analyzes the peoples' grievances with the Articles of Confederation that caused Shays' Rebellion, a rebellion of farmers and merchants that proved the need for a new constitution.
