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Assignment 3: Articles of Confederation Timeline Assignment
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Made by Rosa Acevedo
US Government
Articles of Confederation
What events caused leaders to want to revise the articles of confederation?
INTRODUCTION
This passage was one of Congress's greatest successes, enacted the 13th of July of 1787.
The ordinance established a plan for settling the Northwest Territory, which included areas that are now in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
This territory included the disputed western lands that had delayed ratification of the Articles.
The Ordinance banned slavery and included a bill of rights to guarantee representative government, religious freedom, trial by jury, and other freedoms to settlers.
Northwest Ordinance
The government needed to cope with a very difficult economic situation, related to war debts, a sluggish economy, uncooperative states and civil unrest.
It broke when they established new laws but they didn't become truth.
Dangers and Unrest
They found themselves forced to borrow money from Europe. They didn't had enough money so they couldn't give it back.
In conclusion, the economy was slow-recovered. That was a conclusion of the postwar depression.
Most of the farmers were particularly hard hit.
Many of them fell into debt and faced losing their farms.
war debts
The Congress had to deal with the
war debts, that was a problem for them. They had to pay to foreign creditors, wealthy Americans and their soldiers
In 1783, they decided to ask the states to approve a tax on imports but only 9 states consented.
Some states negotiated with foreign powers to raised their own army
The economy shrank more.
The economy was a slow recovery. Many farmers fell into debt and lot of them lost their lands.
In September 1786, a group Massachusetts farmers attacked courthouses to prevent the foreclosing of their lands.
The state asked Congress for help, but they didn't have money.
Finally, state militia scattered Shays and his rebellions.
postwar depression
interest of the states
The states pursued their own interests, ignoring laws passed by Congress and the terms of foreign treaties.
Others, negotiated directly with foreign powers and raised their own armed forces.
In September 1786 a small band of Massachusetts farmers rebelled at the prospect of losing their land.
Shay´s rebellion
They were led by Daniel Shays, a Revolutionary War captain formed.
Farmers attacked courthouses to prevent the foreclosing o the farms.
In 1787, the ranks of Shay's Rebellion swelled.
The Massachusetts legislature asked Congress for help, it had neither money to offer.
Finally, the assembled state militia scattered Shays and his angry mob.
The Rebellion came at a sensitive time and it hastened moves to revise the Articles of Confederation.
In March 1785 George Washington invited representatives from Virginia and Maryland to his
home at Mount Vernon. The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss resolving a trade dispute between the two states.
After the success of the Mount Vernon meeting, James Madison to organized a second, larger meeting at Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss regulating commerce between all of the states.
The next meeting was to be held in May 1787 in Philadelphia.
Calls to Revise the Articles
Alexander Hamilton called on states to send delegates to discuss commerce and make the national government “adequate to the exigencies of the union.”
In February 1787 Madison persuaded the Confederation Congress to endorse the Philadelphia meeting “for the sole
and express purpose of revising the the Articles of
Confederation."
Nobody mentioned anything about making a new constitution.
https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/articles-of-confederation
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Sources
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/articles