Oklahoma Social Studies 8.C.3.1

8.C.3.1 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 8.C.3.1.A

  Identify strengths of the United States of America’s government operating under the Articles of Confederation, including a solution to territorial disputes, as ...

• 8.C.3.1.B

  Identify the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, including the lack of a common national currency, means for common defense, national judiciary to sett...

• 8.C.3.1.C

  Describe how severe economic conditions and civil unrest, typified by Shays’ Rebellion, contributed to a call for revision of the Articles of Confederation.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify wartime coordination and the Northwest Ordinance as successes under the Articles. They explain how problems with money, defense, courts, and voting limited the government. They connect debt, hardship, and Shays’ Rebellion to the Philadelphia meeting.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student explains how the Northwest Ordinance organized western territory and set a path to statehood. They explain why Congress could not tax to pay war debt or easily fund a common defense. They show how separate state currencies, no national court, and unanimous amendment votes made cooperation hard.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may say the Articles accomplished nothing, overlooking wartime coordination and the Northwest Ordinance. Some think Congress could collect taxes or take state disputes to a national court. Others treat Shays’ Rebellion as the only reason leaders called for change, rather than a warning sign amid debt and hardship.

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How to Assess It

On an exit ticket, name one success under the Articles and two weaknesses. Then explain how debt and Shays’ Rebellion pushed leaders toward the 1787 meeting.

1. 01

   Give pairs a Northwest Territory map and step cards; have them place the steps from territorial government to statehood.

2. 02

   Ask: Why might a Massachusetts farmer with debt and high taxes close a courthouse, and why would leaders call a meeting afterward?

3. 03

   Match cards: state currencies to hard trade, no tax power to unpaid debt, no national court to unresolved disputes, unanimity to blocked changes.

4. 04

   Show a current dollar bill beside images of two 1780s state notes; ask what a traveling shopkeeper would need to calculate.

• 8.C.3.2

  Analyze the significance of the Constitutional Convention on the formation of a new organization for national government.

• 5.C.5

  Examine the formation of the United States of America’s system of government following the American Revolution.

• 8.C.3

  Examine the formation of the United States of America’s system of government following the Revolutionary War and the creation of the Constitution of the United ...

• 5.C.5.1

  Evaluate the major issues that led to the Constitutional Convention, including the public alarm raised from Shays’ Rebellion and challenges faced by a national ...