Objectives

Students will:

1. Tell how the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation led to instability.
2. Explain how the Confederation Congress dealt with the western lands.
3. Describe how the deadlock over the form of the new government was broken at the Constitutional Convention.
4. Determine how the delegates answered the question of representation.
5. Outline the roots of the Constitution.
6. Identify the limits placed on government power by the Constitution.