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    1776‚ the next step was to construct a new set of government laws to govern the new nation. This was a task left up to the Confederation Congress‚ who adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1781. The Articles of Confederation were a good idea in theory‚ but when put into use by the colonies proved to be weak‚ and failed. The Articles failed for many reasons. One of the main reasons was that Congress had no control over taxes‚ and the individual states wouldn ’t give the federal government the money

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    Essay Outline #1 Analyze the extent to which the Articles of Confederation were effective in solving the problems that confronted the new nation. Introduction: In America‚ between the years of 1777 and 1789‚ the Articles of Confederation served as the first constitution for the United States. This new document was the first attempt at a centralized national government‚ effective in solving few problems that arose in America. The articles successfully put an end to the Revolutionary War in

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    Successes of the Articles of Confederation Everyday‚ people go through trial and error. The Founding Fathers first created the Articles of Confederation in order to have a central government that did not have too much power. However‚ this did not work‚ as the central government was made too weak and the states did as they pleased. However‚ without this step‚ the Founding Fathers would have never created the document the United States goes by today‚ the Constitution. The Articles‚ however‚ did have

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    Articles of Confederation DBQ With intentions of creating a united nation‚ colonial leaders developed the Articles of Confederation. Although the Articles of Confederation helped lead the United States to the creation of the Constitution‚ it did not provide for an effective government from 1781 to 1787‚ do to its lack of power to control commerce and impose taxes‚ the failure to amalgamate its people as a country‚ and its inability to enforce laws. Though its overall ineffectiveness

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    The Articles of Confederation vs. the Constitution The end of the Revolution gave the American colonies their freedom‚ but the new country needed its own government and laws by which to control the land. Many questions required answers‚ such as who would make the laws and enforce them‚ how would the new government manage finances‚ or would the states handle that individually? American leaders first tried to address these issues when the Second Continental Congress created the Articles of Confederation

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    In November 1777‚ the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union—the United States’ first written constitution. The Articles of Confederation formed a constitution concerned primarily with limiting the powers of the central government; however‚ the central government was based entirely on Congress. At the time‚ there was no executive branch because they wanted to limit the government and not have it too powerful. This meant that the execution of its laws would

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    The Articles of Confederation was the first Govt. after the Revolution and it failed because they tried to be the exact opposite of the Britain. The Articles of Confederation had no president unlike the Articles of the Constitution where the 2nd Article says what the president can and can’t do and how long his term is. The farmers were in debt and could not pay for it so they had a rebellion know has Shay’s rebellion. The Articles of Confederation ended after 8 years and soon lead to the new Government

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    weaknesses of the Articles of confederation. My first paragraph will be the downfalls of the articles of Confederation and the strengths of the U.S. Constitution. My second paragraph will be how the Constitution fixed problems in the Articles of Confederation. I believe the Constitution fixed many problems in the Articles of Confederation. The U.S. Constitution fixed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation main downfall was weakness. The Articles had many weaknesses

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    were governed under the Articles of Confederation. Despite their newly acquired freedom‚ all was not well in the states. The states were plagued by crippling debt from the war‚ disputes over claims to unsettled western land‚ and many other issues that stemmed from the government formed by the Articles of Confederation. It was so bad that when a proposal for a convention to address these issues with the Articles was created‚ all but one state agreed to attend. The Articles weren’t completely useless

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    Rob Small Mr.Smith DBQ #2 "From 1781 to 1789 the articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government". I disagree with this quote because the articles was to weak to keep the nation unified which made the article a failure. The Articles were set up intentionally to be weak because of the memory of a strong central government of the British. The articles were to weak to govern effectively so it did not have the ability to carry out designs with out controversy from

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