Articles Of Confederation Dbq

The United states was founded independence from Great Britain it’s founding fathers realized from their experiences that the a new document of law was needed. They thought that they should establish something to preserve the U.S. new found independence while maintaining order. However the first documation that was created by the founding fathers was called the Articles of Confederation. The Article of Confederation did preserve the U.S. new found independence but it did not maintain order. From my point of view the Articles of Confederation was created to satisfy the needs of every state. When they were abiding by the Articles of Confederation each state view it’s own authority and power as superior to the who was in charged. However, this lead to recurring arguments between the states. In addition, the states would not willingly give money to financially support the national government. As a result the government was powerless to enforce any acts that Congress passe. Furthermore, some states began to make individual agreements with foreign

governments. Just about every state had its own military. Each state also printed their own money. Therefore this along with the issues with trafficking prove that there was not stable nation economy.

A Protest by the name of Shays’ Rebellion took place. This protest was in connection to rising debt and the economic disorder and or confusion. The government was not able to gather and combine a military force among the states to help put down the rebellion. This was evidence that the structure of the Article of Confederation was a serious weak structured form of government.
When individuals realized and when it was obvious to the states that the economic and the military was week.

The Americans began asking for changes to the Article of Confederation. As a result some states met together to discuss their concerns dealing with the trafficking and the economic difficulties and or complications. As more states became interested in reconstruction or changing the Article of Confederation a national meeting were held. This national meeting is called the Constitutional Convention. The quickly realized that making changes to the Article of Confederation would not contribute to their diddicitules. They agreed that the entire Article of Confederation needed to be replaced with a new Constitution that will strongly endorse the structure of the national government. When changes were being discussed for how states should be represented during the forming of the new Constitution two ideas were

implemented.
As a result the Virginia plan wanted the representation to include the population of each state. On the other hand the New Jersey wanted equal representation for every state. This is when the both came to an agreement and combined both plans. They also agreed upon that it would be two chambers in congress. Known as the Senate and the House of Representatives.