Forming+a+Gov't+Pt.+I+Immersion

toc =Key Terms & People=

Using the resources listed below, write a definition for each of the following terms or people listed in your //**Social Studies Only**// notebook/binder. __//Make sure you can acknowledge the source for the information you used for your answer.//__
 * Articles of Confederation

=**Main Ideas**=


 * Answer the following questions in your** //Social Studies Only// **notebook/binder. The answers may be written as a complete paragraph, as a list, or as a picture/diagram. __//Make sure you can acknowledge the source for the information you used for your answer.//__**
 * 1) Identify the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

=Resources=
 * [[file:New Freedoms, New Challenges 08.pdf]]

= = =Activities=

As a member of the new Congress of Confederation, you reviewed four major challenges to your nation's current freedoms: **Military Weakness, Foreign Trade, Interstate Commerce, & Internal Insurrection**. For each challenge, you had to predict possible consequences and solutions. Using Apple Photo Booth, your task is now to create a video diary documenting the following:
 * 1) Summarize two of the major challenges facing the nation. What problems did you predict would occur if these problems were not resolved? Using the powers granted to you as a government under the **Articles of Confederation**, what solutions did you come up with? (2)
 * 2) Explain how effective/non-effective your government was in solving the nation's problems through the powers granted to it under the Articles of Confederation? What problems did you experience? What changes do feel need to be made to the government?

//**Once your video segment has been recorded, save the movie to your desktop using the following title, "AOC, First Name, Last Initial, Class Period " **// 

Video Requirements
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 * Fully addresses points 1 and 2 above.
 * Video diary entry provides historical evidence, elaboration, and commentary reflective of the reading requirement(s) and his/her conversations with classmates.
 * Video length does not exceed 5 minutes.
 * [[file:Photo Booth Reflection Instructions.pdf]]

=Extensions= The information below is //**optional**// reading and is meant only to extend the knowledge you have gained from the primary resources listed above

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 * Shay's Rebellion
 * International Relations

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