"From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided an effective form of government." "Analyze the degree to which the Articles of Confederation provided an effective form of government with respect to any TWO of the following: foreign relations‚ economic conditions‚ and Western lands." From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided an ineffective form of government. The Articles of Confederation was one of the first official documents establishing the government of the United States
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The French government had many problems financially and politically before 1789 that built up over a number of years and a number of monarchs. The problems stemmed from a growing disorder in the finances‚ aristocratic privileges‚ new revolutionary philosophies‚ power struggles‚ and a weak monarch. Due to lengthy and very costly wars‚ Louis XIV and Louis XV played a big hand in bankrupting France. The French had suffered big defeats and therefore had lost men and supplies. They also failed to gain
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Why did the expansion of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s? After the depression of 1837 in the South and the Indian removal‚ Americans had expanded their territory further in the West by the 1840s. The expansion in the land inspired the expansion of slavery. In the 1840s and 1850s‚ this expansion of slavery became the most divisive political issue since it caused the Texas revolt‚ made James K. Polk win the election of 1844‚ and brought disagreements over the
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DBQ "From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government." During those years the United States government was still an "infant" and the Articles of Confederation was not an effective form of government. Each state had a strong complaint against the Articles of Confederation. During the crucial years from 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation was not a government well suited for the developing United States. In Document A‚ which is a
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French Revolution How did Necker’s Compte Rendu’ (1781) lead to the revolutionary situation in 1789? In 1781‚ the widely respected and trusted Jacques Necker released his much awaited account on the financial position of the Kingdom of France‚ the Compte Rendu’. Translated literally to account rendered’‚ the assessment was a clear fabrication of the financial state of France claiming incorrectly that government had $10 million livres in surplus - when in fact it was on the brink of bankruptcy
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1. Discuss the status of foreign claims and possessions in the trans-Mississippi West from 1811 to 1840. Trace the development of American interests in the region during this era. Between the years 1811 to 1840‚ Americans had migrated into the trans-Mississippi West in order to obtain defined boundaries with Canada and Mexico; moreover‚ they went westward to acquire the western edge of the continent. Commercial goals fueled early interest as traders firs sought beaver skins in Oregon territory
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division into three estates with different rights and duties‚ produced a clear situation of injustice with poverty for the greater part of the people and the extreme wealth for just a few. 1 To what extent were poverty and prosperity causes of the 1789 French Revolution? To a great extent because the prosperity of the bourgeois encouraged the poverty‚ peasants‚ to make justice for themselves by making a revolution against the authorities. The first and second estates had several privileges and it
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the extent to which TWO of the following influenced the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840. Jacksonian economic policy Changes in electoral politics The Second Great Awakening The Westward movement Background information/Intro: Thesis: Both Jacksonian economic policy and westward movement in America were indicative of the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840. It was in this antebellum era that the United States‚ with economic and sectional changes‚ made effects
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How Serious Was the Radical Threat Facing Pitt In The Period 1789-1801? The French revolution broke out in 1789‚ and while at first Britain was pleased and welcomed the changes that the revolution brought to France (i.e. the new constitutional monarchy mirrored Britain’s political system in many ways.) Pitt and his government began to become worried when the revolution in France stepped up a gear and became more extreme‚ they obviously didn’t want a repeat of the French experience in Britain. The
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Alcohol: The Social Implications of the Rise and Consumption Early Modern Europe 1400-1789 Carissa Carlisle His352 Meadows "Swill"‚ "grog"‚ "firewater"‚ and "liquid bread". There are many different terms associated with the word "alcohol". Alcohol has revolved and evolved around people ’s lives for thousands of years. For early modern Europeans‚ alcohol had served several purposes‚ such as medicine by means of brandy as well as foodstuff‚ and as to why the drink had been the go-to drink
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