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Articles of Confederation :: American America History

Articles of ConfederationSoon after the Revolutionary fight in America, a new government was started when the Articles of Confederation (Articles) were adopted by the Continental Congress. The Articles set up a democratic government that gave the tells the world-beater to make their own laws and to enforce them. However, the Articles were ineffective and failed to provide a punishing government. During this Critical Period in the history of the United severalises, regionalism and anarchy were growth because of the following reasons. 1) The Continental Congress controlled public affairs but on that point was nothing in the Articles that gave Congress the power to enforce laws or conflate the press outs. 2) There was no solid monetary establishment to procure that taxes would be salaried or to protect commerce, both nationally and foreign trade. 3) The state lacked unity and strength because there was no leadership.The Articles were ineffective because Congress entirely h ad the power to recommend actions to the States. It could not enforce its recommendations or laws. Each State had its own spirit, monetary system, and means to enforce the law. Each State had a stronger commitment to the State laws and to the States own self interests than to the recommendations of Congress. Regionalism pitted one State against another, which decreased the sense of unity in the country. For example, when Congress recommended an impost, or duty, on imported goods, the State of Rhode Island voted to reject the idea because they felt it was unfair and was against the constitution of the State (Document A).The Articles failed to provide a solid monetary system to ensure that taxes would be paid or to protect commerce. Congress had no counsel to collect taxes to pay off pre-war debts. This led to chaos and anarchy when soldiers that hadnt been paid marched on Philadelphia, and Congress had to flee to Princeton New Jersey (Document C). Each State had its own property, but there was no national money system. Since the money had no value from state to state, the people began to use the barter system of trade. This reduced the amount of trade and importation of goods. There was very dinky economic progress and growth during this period even though the cosmos was increasing. (Document B). Self interest of the States and of individuals added to the cause of the problems. For example, John Jay tried to create a treaty with Great Britain that would puzzle been bad for the merchants of the United States but it would have paid off the war debt.

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