Answer:
Article 1: Created the name of the combined 13 states as The United States of
America.
Article 2: State governments still had their own powers that were not listed in the
Articles of Confederation.
Article 3: The combined states were responsible for helping to protect each other
from attacks.
Article 4: People can travel freely from state to state; however, criminals who left
the state where they committed the crime would be sent back for trial.
Article 5: Creates the Congress of the Confederation. Each state gets one vote in
the congress and can send between 2 and 7 people to participate in the
congress.
Article 6: The new central government is responsible for working with other
countries, including trade agreements and declaring war. States were
required to have trained soldiers who could be ready to fight.
Article 7: States could choose their own military leaders.
Article 8: Each state government had to raise money to give to the new central
government.
Article 9: Only the new central government had the power to make declare war,
and make peace with foreign countries. The central government was also
responsible for assigning Ambassadors to represent the United States in
other countries.
2 | P a g e
Article 10: Created a group called the Committee of States who could act for the
Congress of Confederation when the Congress was not working.
Article 11: Stated that Canada could join the new nation if it wanted.
Article 12: Stated that the new nation agreed to pay for earlier war debts.
Article 13: Declared that the Articles of Confederation were forever and could
only be changed by the Congress of Confederation and if all the states
agreed
Explanation:
